ISABELLA

Date15 August 1825

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 53' 3" x breadth 19' 2" x depth 9' 1"
Registered Tonnage: 66 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001795

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: James Adamson

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1836 (I167).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel construction, no figurehead.

Owners:
19/08/1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
William Allardyce, 32 shares; George Allan, 32 shares
1826: George Allan sold his shares to W. Allardyce.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1826-36: Master John Faulkner

Voyages:
1826-27: London coaster
1828-33: Leith coasting

General History:
25/09/1834: At Elsinore from Stettin for Leith.
21/11/1834: Arrived Aberdeen from Newcastle.

09/09/1829:
The ISABELLA, Faulkner, arrived here on Monday, from Gottenburg. Sailed 27th ult.[sic]: experienced very bad weather during her passage. On Thursday, 3rd inst. was struck by a sea on the starboard beam, which carried away four staun-cheons, with bulwarks; split the covering board; strained her decks, and hove the boat overboard; split the foresail, and carried away studding-sail gear, and a number of articles off her deck.
(Aberdeen Journal)

Note: Sloop rigged in Lloyd's underwriters.