SPRIGHTLY

OwnerOwned by Catto & Co. (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date1826

Object NameSNOW

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 81 3/6' x breadth 23 1/6' x depth 16'
registered tonnage: 186 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001797

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: James Adamson

Fate: Lost near the Isle of Pines [modern Isla de la Juventud, Cuba], 27 January 1831.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, female figurehead.

Owners:
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Robert Catto, merchant, 20 shares; William Donald Jnr., 8 shares; Andrew Johnston*, shipmaster, 4 shares.
Other shareholders;
George Thomson, 4 shares; John Lumsden, 4 shares; George Pirie, 4 shares; William Pirie, 4 shares; William Catto, 4 shares; John Catto, 4 shares; William Donald, 4 shares; all Aberdeen merchants.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Master:
1822-31: Master Andrew Johnston (Aberdeen Register)

Voyages (from Lloyd's underwriters)
1822-23: Belfast - Quebec
1824: Lynn
1825-27: Belfast - Quebec
1829-31: Belfast - St. Johns

General History:
08/04/1831:
Jamaica, 21st Feb. The SPRIGHTLY, Johnston, from Aux Cayes [Haiti] to England, was lost 27th ulto. [January] off the Jardin Keys, Isle of Pines.
(Lloyd's List)

Note: SPRIGHTLY is in the Adamson builder's list for 1826 but this is a modern document mostly compiled from the Aberdeen Register of Shipping. It appears to be in Lloyd's underwriters as a prize which was 18 years old when it first entered in Lloyd's 1822 (S supplement 54) so built around 1804 and not in Aberdeen. Even if this ship was not built in Aberdeen it was registered to Aberdeen owners and there is a long term aim that ABS will expand to include vessels with a strong association with the city regardless of their place of construction.