RIVAL

Date1826

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 65 11/12' x breadth 19 1/12' x depth 12 1/12'
Registered Tonnage: 101 ton (121 - Lloyd's 1831)

Object numberABDSHIP001757

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duffus & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd’s 1849 (R271).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, standing bowsprit, carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Farquharson, merchant, 4 shares; James Mackie, merchant, 4 shares; Alexander Bruce, shipmaster, 4 shares.
Other shareholders;
George Forbes, 8 shares; James Hay, 4 shares; Francis Duncan, 4 shares; Alexander Mackie, Youngest, 4 shares; all merchants. John Philip, bookbinder, 4 shares; James Williamson, flesher, 4 shares; William Connon, coal broker, 4 shares; Alexander Keith, painter, 4 shares; James Hunter, mason, 4 shares; James Mair, advocate, 4 shares; Alexander Mackie Jnr, block-maker, 4 shares; all Aberdeen. James Lumsden, bookseller, Glasgow, 4 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1831-37: P. Laing, registered at Sunderland (Lloyd’s).
1840-43: Williams, registered at Lynn.
1847-49: Boutland, registered at Newcastle.

Master:
1831-33: Master W. Bowser
1834-39: Master S. Sterling
1840-43: Master J. Smith

Voyages:
1831-33: Plymouth - Spain
1834: Glasgow - Genoa
1835-39: Clyde - Genoa
1840-43: Lynn - Ireland
1847-48: Newcastle coaster

Note: Lengthened 1828, now 122 tons.