WILLIAM STOVELD

DateSeptember 1826

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD Rig: Brigantine

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 79 5/12' x breadth 23 1/12' x depth 15 1/12'
Registered Tonnage: 187 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002776

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: George Levie

Fate: Wrecked in Clovelly roads, North Devon, 2 December 1863

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, standing bowsprit, carvel built, male bust figurehead.

Owners:
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners,
David Copland, merchant, 20 shares; Robert Spring, baker, 4 shares; Alexander Davidson, shipmaster, 12 shares; all Aberdeen.
Other shareholders in 1826:
John Morrison, shipmaster, 8 shares; John Lindsay, miller, 8 shares; Bucksburn Mills; all Aberdeen. William Stoveld, banker of Petworth, Sussex, 8 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1839-42: Buckle & Co. (Lloyd's)
1843-45: Lawson
1853-60: de Mattos
1861: E. Roberts
1862: M. Scrafton, registered at Middlesborough

Masters:
1826-46: Master Davidson
1847-48: Master Urquhart
1849: Master G. Smart
1853-54: Master J. Mearns
1856: Master W. Brown
1862: Master T. Harrison

Voyages (from Lloyd's)
1828: Dundee - Memel (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
1830-33: Leith - New South Wales
1835-42: London - New South Wales
1842-45: London - New Zealand
1846: London - the Mediterranean
1847-48: Liverpool - Galatz (on the River Danube)
1849: Cork
1853-54: London - California
1855: Leith
1856-61: Leith coaster
1862-63: Stockton

General History:
25/12/1828:
At Leith for Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania] and New South Wales, the 1st class coppered brig WILLIAM STOVELD, Captain A. Davidson, has elegant and very comfortable accommodation for a limited number of passengers in the cabin and will sail direct from the harbour about 15 January.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))

12/03/1830:
Arrived Sydney 11 March, brig WILLIAM STOVELD, Davidson master, from the South Sea Islands, lading coconut oil, arrowroot, pork, etc.
(The Australian)

24/09/1836:
Arrived Sydney 22 Sept., brig WILLIAM STOVELD, from the sperm whale fishery, with 945 barrels oil, having left Sydney Feb 1835 (Davidson master)
(Sydney Monitor)

31/08/1838:
Arrived Sydney 28 Aug., brig WILLIAM STOVELD, Davidson master, from South Seas with 1000 barrels oil.
(The Australian)

22/11/1842:
Brig WILLIAM STOVELD, Captain Davidson, arrived off Sheerness, having left Leghorn [Livorno] 30 Sept. On 16 Oct., when off Cape Trafalgar during heavy squall, she was struck by lightening, which destroyed top gallant mast, topmast and main yard. All crew were on deck at the time and a few minutes previously were on the yards, but fortunately none received injury.
(Standard (London))

01/06/1844:
Brig WILLIAM STOVELD, Davidson master, sailed 31 May for London with colonial produce and four passengers.
(The Australian)

15/10/1857:
Arrived Gibraltar, brig WILLIAM STOVELD, from Alexandria and Malta with beans for Gibraltar, cleared for Cork or Falmouth.
Standard

17/12/1858:
Penzance, 13 Dec. brig WILLIAM STOVELD, Adamson, of London, from Shields to Constantinople with coals, leaky.
(Newcastle Courant)

11/07/1860
THE Brig WILLIAM STOVELD, 188 tons; built at Aberdeen, and doubled from the wales down; has just been thoroughly overhauled; had part new ceiling and other repairs, and been classed AE 1; carries about 300 tons tons of coals on fourteen feet water, and shifts without ballast. Now lying in the West India Dock.
Geo. Bayley and Wm. Ridley, 2 Cowper's court, Cornhill, E.C.
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)

09/12/1863:
Crew of sunk ship MARGARET QUAYLE made in boat for Clovelly, but mistook the lights at the wreck of the brig WILLIAM STOVELD, where men were working, for lights of Clovelly. Boat was put out from Clovelly to bring them in.
(Liverpool Mercury)

10/12/1863
The brig WILLIAM STOVELD, of Middlesborough, with tons of coal, from Newport for Dieppe, which was abandoned by her crew in the Clovelly roads on Wednesday is now dashed to pieces.
(North Devon Journal)

Note: despite it's apparent sinking WILLIAM STOVELD continues to be in Lloyds 1869 (W312)