MAZEPPA
Shipownervessel built for
William Reid
(Aberdeen, Scotland)
Shipownervessel built for
John Lumsden & Co.
(Aberdeen, Scotland)
Date9 August 1834
Object NamePADDLE STEAMER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 79 6/12' x breadth 15 3/12' x depth 9 8/12'
Registered Tonnage: 50 ton
Registered Tonnage: 50 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001770
Keywords
Fate: Broken up in the Arsenal de la Carraca, San Fernando, 1846.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Paddle steamer with a schooner rig, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, billet figurehead.
Owners:
13/08/1834: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Lumsden, Aberdeen, merchant; William Reid, Aberdeen, merchant; George Elsmie Jnr, Aberdeen, merchant, joint owners of 64 shares.
Other shareholders;
James Forbes, Echt, merchant; George Forbes, Springhill, merchant; Alexander Bannerman, Aberdeen, merchant; John Duffus, manufacturer, Aberdeen carrying on business under the firm of John Duffus & Co., Chain, Cable and Anchor Manufacturers
08/1835: Re-registered at London? [Not clear in register]
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 44, 1834 (CE87/11/5))
17/08/1835: Brodie Willcox and Arthur Anderson, London, registered at London.
28/08/1835: chartered to the Spanish Navy, then sold to Spain during the Carlist War
1835-46: Spanish Royal Navy (Source: clydeships.co.uk)
Voyages:
1834-35: Aberdeen - Leith
General History:
17/09/1834:
The ABERDEEN, LONDON, and LEITH STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
Fast-sailing Packets will Sail,
The DUKE OF WELLINGTON, from ABERDEEN, on
SATURDAY first, at Ten o'clock, P.M.;
And a Vessel every SATURDAY Evening, from LONDON and
ABERDEEN.
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THE MAZEPPA
Sails from ABERDEEN,
For Montrose, Leith, and intermediate Ports,
Every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY Morning,
At Six O'Clock;
And from NEWHAVEN PIER,
Every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY Morning.
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PASSAGE MONEY in the FIRST CABIN... 10S.
SECOND CABIN, 6.s.
Passage Money to intermediate Ports, and Freight of Goods,
equally moderate.
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AGENTS, ROBERT MATTHEW, LONDON.
LAING & SWORD, LEITH.
JAMES FRAZER, MONTROSE.
GEORGE ELSMIE, Jun. ABERDEEN.
Waterloo Quay, 16th September, 1834
(Aberdeen Journal)
10/06/1835:
'THE ABERDEEN and LONDON STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S PACKETS will Sail
For LONDON, calling off SUNDERLAND, (weather permitting)
The Queen of Scotland,
Saturday, June 13, at 10 o'clock night.
Duke of Wellington,
Saturday, June 20, at 8 o'clock night.
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FOR LEITH AND MONTROSE,
THE MAZEPPA,
On Thursday morning, at 6 o'clock,
Monday morning, 15th June,
Friday morning, 19th June.
Passage money - First Cabin, 10s - Second, 5s.
ROBERT MATTHEW,
Aberdeen Steam Wharf, London,
WM. LAING & CO. Leith,
GEO. ELSMIE, Junior, Aberdeen.
Aberdeen, 9th June, 1835.
(Aberdeen Journal)
28/07/1835:
Sailed from Aberdeen for London, Anderson (master).
(Aberdeen Journal) [Last movement found in the Journal]
Note: some listings show the name as MAREPPA
The breadth of 15' 3" is between the paddle wheels (of the hull itself) the paddle boxes would make it wider in practice.
Not in Lloyd's
15 February 1858
January 1837
1809
