DISPATCH

Date1818

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 55 5/6' x breadth 18 1/6' x depth 9'
Registered Tonnage: 75 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001783

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

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.