JOHN CATTO
Date1824
Object NameBRIG
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 67 1/6' x breadth 21' x depth 12'
Registered Tonnage: 117 ton
Registered Tonnage: 117 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001790
Keywords
Fate: wrecked Swinemünde? (now Świnoujście, Poland), 13 August 1833.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine snow rigged, 1 flush deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built.
Owners:
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Thomson, merchant, 32 shares; Robert Catto, 8 shares; William Pirie, 8 shares; William Johnston, merchant, 8 shares; William Simpson, 8 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Master:
1824-33: Master David Moore (Aberdeen Register) (sometimes R. of J. Moore in Lloyd's)
Voyages:
1825: Aberdeen - London
1826: Dublin - Baltic
1827-30: Dundee - Riga
1831: Plymouth coaster
1832-33: Belfast - Riga
General History:
04/03/1831:
The brig JOHN CATTO, Moore, hence [Belfast] to London, arrived on the 26th ult.
(Belfast News-Letter)
29/08/1832:
The brig JOHN CATTO, Moore, from Archangel, arrived yesterday; hit the JANE, of Aberdeen, ready to commence loading 23d ultimo
(Belfast Commercial Chronicle)
31/08/1832:
Arrived Belfast from Archangel
(Belfast Newsletter)
25/08/1833:
Aug. 13 - The JOHN CATTO, Moore, from Dantzic to Aberdeen, on shore on the Swinebottoms, has been condemned and will be sold to-morrow.
(Bell's Weekly Messenger)
1818
1815
