ABBOTSFORD

DateAugust 1829

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD; Black Birch and Fir

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 65 3/6' x breadth 20 5/6' x depth 12 5/12'
Registered Tonnage: 121 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001756

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Stephen & Sons

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1841 (A3).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Hermaphrodite brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, man bust figurehead

Owners:
1829: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Robert Spring, baker/shipowner, 44 shares; William Spark, watchmaker, 8 shares; Thomas Nicolson, shipmaster, 4 shares.
Other shareholders;
John Paul, grocer, 4 shares; John Williamson, flesher, 4 shares.
1836: Owned by Robert Spring, baker, and John Paul, grocer.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Master:
1830-35: Master Nicholson
1835-41: Master A. Baxter

Voyages:
1830-33: Liverpool - Aberdeen
1834-35: Aberdeen - Iceland
1835-36: Aberdeen - London
1836-41: Aberdeen - St. Petersburg

General History:
12/12/1832:
Shipping for sale: to be sold by public roup 4 January within Lemon Tree Tavern, one sixteenth of brig ABBOTSFORD. [Repeated 30/01/1833, to be sold by public roup 1 February].
(Aberdeen Journal)

13/09/1844:
Ramsgate, 9 September. Last night was a most awful one with rain, thunder and lightning. The HENRIETTA GLOVER, from Newcastle for Exeter, came into collision with the brig ABBOTSFORD at nine o'clock last night [details given only of damage to HENRIETTA GLOVER].
(Newcastle Courant)

Note: Hermaphrodite denotes an irregular rig part way between two recognised types.