EARL OF DALHOUSIE

Date1817

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 80 1/6' x breadth 23 5/12' x depth 14 7/12'
Registered Tonnage: 183 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001781

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: James Adamson
Yard Number: 183

Fate: wrecked on Sanday, Orkney, 18 December 1819.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, single deck with beams

Owners:
1819: Richie & Co.

Master:
1819: Master J. Levie

General History:
17/03/1819:
For Quebec and Montreal, the fine new copper fastened brig EARL OF DALHOUSIE, John Levie master, 350 tons burthen. Will be ready to receive goods on board for above places 1 March and sail positively by 20 March. Contact Peter Ritchie, Queen St., Aberdeen, for freight or passage.
(Aberdeen Journal)

01/01/1820:
Kirkwall Dec. 21 - The Brig EARL OF DALHOUSIE, Levie, of and for Aberdeen, from Miramichi, was wrecked on Tresanees, Island of Sanday, the 18th inst. Crew, with the exception of a boy, saved.
(Morning Herald (London))

EARL OF DALHOUSIE, for Aberdeen, Lovie master, from Miramichi, New Brunswick, driven ashore Tresswess Point, Sanday, Orkney Islands, 17 Dec. 1819. Feared would be wrecked, but cargo expected to be saved.
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), “Shipwreck Index of the British Isles” (Lloyd’s Register, London), vol. 4)

Note: continues to be listed in Lloyd's for a couple of years after its apparent wreck.