CYGNET

Date1832

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 40 1/12' x breadth 14 7/12' x depth 7 1/3'
Registered Tonnage: 33 8/94 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001805

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: James Alexander

Fate: lost 12 November 1840, circumstances unknown.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square sterned, clench built, no galleries or figurehead.

Owners:
14/01/1832: Registered at Aberdeen for James Alexander 1st owner in 1832, then various owners until 1833. All owners from Aberdeen.
Other shareholders:
Alexander Forbes, merchant, 10 shares; David Copland, merchant, 8 shares; Robert Spring, baker, 9 shares; all Aberdeen. Peter Nicol, merchant, Old Aberdeen, 8 shares.
03/1833: Owned by Robert Duthie, Donaldson Rose and William Maitland, all merchants.
1834: Owned by Alexander Fraser, merchant.
1837: Owned by Mrs Robina Wishart or Mills.
1840: Vessel's registration cancelled - lost 12 November 1840.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
14/01/1832: Master William Urquhart
14/04/1832: Master T. Henderson
1837: Master John Mills.

Note: Vessel not recorded in Lloyds Registers of Shipping.