WILLIAMINA

Date1818

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 80 9/12' x breadth 23 3/6' x depth 14 9/12'
Registered Tonnage: 187 tons (188 tons Lloyds)

Object numberABDSHIP001782

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: James Adamson

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1840 (W378)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 flush deck, 2 masts, snow brig rigged, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, 2 galleries, female figurehead.

Owners:
1818: Wilson & Co. (Lloyd's)
1820: Adamson
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
James Adamson, shipbuilder, 4 shares; William McKinnon, merchant, 4 shares; George Black, blacksmith, 8 shares; all Aberdeen.
Other owners in 1824; Alexander Webster, advocate, 8 shares; John Watson, advocate, 4 shares; Alexander Allan, advocate, 6 shares; James Harper, merchant, 4 shares; George Thomson, merchant, 6 shares; James Lamond, merchant, 4 shares; Benjamin Williamson, surgeon, 4 shares; William Sutherland, straw hatmaker, 4 shares; Alexander Webster, advocate as trustee of the estate of Anthony Wilson, merchant, 4 shares; Alexander Bannerman, William Mackie, David Milne, Leslie Clark, merchants of Aberdeen as trustees for the creditors of George Innes, druggist, Aberdeen, 4 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1829-30: McLeish & Co. (Lloyd's)
1831-33: Kerr & Co.
1834-38: Hutton & Co, registered at Greenock.
1838-40: J. Leitch

Master:
1818-20: Master W. Wilson
1822-24: Master J. Reed
1824-30: Master John Melville
1830-32: Master R. Kerr
1831-33: Master Spence
1834-37: Master J. Cameron
1838-40: Master J. Smith

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1818: London - Trinidad
1820: London - Montreal
1821: London - San Domingo
1822-24: London - Cape of Good Hope
1825-28: Liverpool - Trieste
1829-30: Greenock - Demerara (Georgetown, Guyana).
1831: Greenock - Limerick
1832: Greenock - Genoa
1833: Greenock - Trinidad
1834-37: Glasgow - Clyde
1838-40: Clyde - Demerara

General History:
27/10/1819:
To be sold by public roup, belonging to sequestered estate of Messers Saunders & Mellis, merchants in Aberdeen, 1/16 of brig WILLIAMINA.
(Aberdeen Journal)

21/04/1824:
For sale by public roup in Lemon Tree Tavern, 30 April, 1/16 of brig WILLIAMINA. Upset price £100.
(Aberdeen Journal)

22/08/1837:
Sloop industry arrived Belfast from St. Bartholomew, brought over 4 seaman who belonged to brig WILLIAMINA, Smith, of Greenock, which was run on board 22 June by barque NEW VOLUNTEER, a fishing boat, passing the 5 Islands, seeing men on shore making distress signals, ran in and took them (9 in number) to St. Barts. WILLIAMINA was on voyage Trinidad-Greenock when 100 miles off St. Barts she spoke and was then run into by NEW VOLUNTEER and stove in her quarter. 7 of crew got on board the barque when the vessels parted. The captain of WILLIAMINA sent the 2nd mate and one of the remaining men in the long boat to bring back his 7 men, the barque being then 1/2 mile to Leeward. They got to the barque and took in the 7 men. During the night they saw the light of the brig, but were unable to pull against the wind and tide and at daybreak could see neither vessel. They drifted for several days before landing on the 5 Islands. There remained on WILLIAMINA only the captain, the mate and the steward. It is supposed she bore away to some port to Leeward.
(Belfast Newsletter)

Note: called WILHELMINA by Lloyd's underwriters 1818 (W supplement 7) until 1821 (W168)