ADELAIDE

DateAugust 1830

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 64.6' x breadth 19.6' x depth 11.2'
gross tonnage 103 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002780

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: George Levie

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's register 1843 (A90)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no gallery, woman's bust figurehead. Constructed partly of pine plank.

Owners:
1830: Registered at Aberdeen by subscribing owners:
Charles Runcy, merchant, 8 shares; Robert Levie, shoemaker, 2 shares; Henry Robinson Levay, shipmaster, 16 shares; all Aberdeen.
Other Shareholders:
William Crabb, baker, 4 shares; William Spark, flesher, 4 shares; Andrew Levie, clerk, 4 shares; William Maitland, merchant, 4 shares; Alexander Mortimer, baker, 4 shares; William Martin, shipbuilder, 2 shares; James Greig, shipbuilder, 2 shares; William Levie, shoemaker, 2 shares; all Aberdeen. James Levie, merchant, 2 shares; Alexander Farquhar, merchant, 2 shares; both Peterhead. William Fraser, banker, Fraserburgh, 4 shares; Jacob Huxdale, coal fitter, Sunderland, 4 shares.
1834: Owned by George Cruickshank, Merchant.
1835: Sold to Banff
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1832: Owner Henry Robinson Levay (H. Levoy in Lloyd's)
1838-43: M. Gafney, registered at "M'lerhd" (presumably Malahide, county Dublin)

Masters:
1830-33: Henry Robinson Levay (H. Levoy in Lloyd's)
1834-37: Master C. Esson
1838-43: Master J. Begg

Voyages:
1832-33: London - Riga
1838-43: Whitehaven coaster

General History:

30/03/1838:
"At Whitehaven: Adelaide, Beggs, from Malahide"
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette) the same on 22/11/1838; 06/02/1839; 26/06/1841; 09 /08/1841

Notes: In Lloyd's as a schooner but in the Aberdeen register as hermaphrodite rigged, hermaphrodite denotes an irregular rig part way between two recognised types.