TRAVELLER

Date1819

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 82' 10" x breadth 23' 7" x depth 15' 1"
Registered Tonnage: 195 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001787

Keywords

About MeYard: James Adamson

Fate: Wrecked, west coast of Lewis, 29 December 1834.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, standing bowsprit, Carvel built, with female bust figurehead.

Owners:
11/08/1825: Registered in Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alex Chivas, advocate, 4 shares; William Jamieson, jeweller, 4 shares and James Goldie, shipmaster, 12 shares; all Aberdeen.
Plus eight other shareholders; James Forbes, 12 shares; George Forbes, 4 shares; James Harper, 8 shares; Alexander Smith, 4 shares; all Aberdeen merchants. William Thomson, ironmonger, 2 shares; Margaret Gordon, spinster, 8 shares; all Aberdeen. John Barker, clerk, Grandholme, 2 shares; Thomas Adamson, shipbuilder, late of Aberdeen now Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, 4 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping 1825, No. 77 (Aberdeen City Archives))
1834: A. Martin (Lloyd's)

Masters:
1824-26: Master James Goldie
1827-32: Master Anderson
1832: Master A. Wrighton
1833: Master Anderson
1834: Master A. Wrighton

Voyages (from Lloyd's underwriters):
1824-25: Dundee - Savanna
1826: Dundee - Charleston (South Carolina)
1827-29: Leith - Aberdeen
1830-33: Leith - Jamaica
1834: Dundee - Quebec

General History:
July 1819: 143 settlers were transported to Quebec from Aberdeen.
April 1820: 20 settlers were transported to Quebec from Tobermory.
(Lucille H. Campey (2002), "'Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed': Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots they carried to Canada 1774-1855" (Natural Heritage Books, Toronto), pp. 24, 47, 159)

03/01/1835:
Island of Lewis
On Monday morning, at 6 o'clock, the brig TRAVELLER of Dundee, formerly of Aberdeen, from Quebec for Dundee, came onshore at Galston on the west side. She had been previously unmanageable, having shipped a sea which broke her rudder. For twelve hours after she struck, the crew were lashed to the masts and rigging, exposed to the immense billows which sweep in from the Atlantic. In this situation they were seen by the people on shore, who could reander them no assistance, and had heard their cries before daylight. The storm having somewhat abated, they launched the boat, in which, with the exception of a boy who died from cold and fatigue, they all landed in safety. The brig will become a total wreck.
(Caledonian Mercury)