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DISPATCH
DISPATCH
DISPATCH

DISPATCH

Date1818
Object NameSMACK
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 55 5/6' x breadth 18 1/6' x depth 9'
Registered Tonnage: 75 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001783
About MeYard: James Adamson

Fate: wrecked at Dunstanburgh, Northumberland, 7 March 1827.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck, 1 mast, sloop rigged, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead, sheathed with copper 1822.

Owners:
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Forbes, merchant, 32 shares; John Elrick, Peterhead, 32 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1823: Master W. Stewart
1824-25: Master Alex Fyfe
1827: Master MacDonald

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1823: Dublin
1824-25: Liverpool - Gibraltar
1826: Leith
1827: London coaster

General History:
10/05/1826:
For Fraserburgh and Inverness, to call at Burghead and Cromarty should encouragement offer. The 1st Class smack DISPATCH, will take the berth 13 May near the canal basin, to sail about middle of next week. Alex Forbes, 25 Marischal St.
(Aberdeen Journal)

24/03/1827:
During the night the 7th instant, the sloop DISPATCH, Macdonald, of and from Aberdeen, for Hull, laden with oil-cake, was driven shore on the rocks to the south of Dunstanborough Castle, and is become a total wreck; crew and the materials saved.
(Durham County Advertiser)

Note: Smack rigged in Lloyd's but sloop rigged in the Aberdeen register.
NORVAL
DUTHIE
1818
EUPHEMIA
13 November 1815
ELRICK
1818
MOUNTAINEER
Alexander HALL & Co.
1821
OSSIAN
DUTHIE
February 1820
JANET
DUTHIE
19 May 1826
SHAKESPEARE
Nicol Reid & Co.
May 1825
CRIMONMOGATE
November 1816
OCEAN
1814
RED ROVER
Alexander Bannerman
1828
FANCY
1808
LIVELY
Alexander HALL & Co.
1817
HERALD
23 February 1826
BARBARA
Alexander HALL & Co.
1817
JESSIE
DUTHIE
1846
RAPID
DUTHIE
1834
AGNES
DUTHIE
1856
RIVAL
1826
ALBUERA
Nicol Reid & Co.
17 February 1826
ALFRED
1804
JANE
Nicol Reid & Co.
June 1817
LAVINIA
Nicol Reid & Co.
July 1818