UNICORN

Shipownervessel built for William Stephen

Date1823

Object NameSNOW

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 75 11/12' x breadth 22 3/6' x depth 14 5/12'
Registered Tonnage: 164 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001755

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Stephen & Sons

Fate: Wrecked at Slyne Head, Ballyconneely, Galway, Ireland, 1 December 1826.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, and a topsail, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, Unicorn figurehead.

Owners:
1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
William Stephen, shipbuilder, 24 shares; James Stephen, mariner, 8 shares.
Other owner; John Fleming, merchant, 32 shares.
01/1827: Vessel totally lost
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1824-26: Master D. Talbot
1827: Master J. Stephen

Voyages:
1824: Liverpool - Buenos Aires
1825-26: London - Havana
1827: London - Treiste

General History:
04/12/1823:
In Lieu of the ATLANTIC. for HAVANA
The remarkably fine Brig UNICORN,
David Talbot, Master;
(On her second voyage A1 at Lloyd's, burthen 164 tons, coppered and copper fastened, and in every respect a very superior conveyance; lying west side Prince's Dock - For freight or passage, having spacious accomodations, apply to Messrs. J. Tennant and son or to F. Ashley.
(Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser)

09/12/1826:
Galway, Dec 5. - The UNICORN, of Aberdeen, was totally lost on the 1st inst. near Balinkeely [sic], to the northward of Sline Head [sic] and, it is feared, the crew drowned.
(New Times (London) )

Note: in Lloyd's as a brig (Snow rig comes from Aberdeen Register of Shipping).