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Shipbuildervessel built by Unknown

Date1778

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 49 3/12' x breadth 16 3/6'x depth 5'
gross tonnage 73 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002793

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: Broken up November 1847

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Sloop rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, no figurehead

Owners:
1784-86: Captain & Co (G. Wilson)
1791-95: Chalmers
1808-14: G. Towers
1825: Subscribing owner Alexander Alexander, shipmaster, Aberdeen, 64 shares.
30/06/1830: Alexander Alexander sold 32 shares each to Robert Jack, merchant and William Jack, shipwright.
1840: Subscribing owners James Winlaw, merchant, 20 shares; WIlliam Stephen, baker, 8 shares; Robert Cruickshank, merchant, 4 shares
Other Shareholders:
James Stewart, flesher, 8 shares; Alexander Stephen, painter, 8 shares; Alexander Cruickshank, merchant, 4 shares; John Webster, merchant, 4 shares; Alexander Mowat, Merchant, 4 shares; Samuel Benzie, merchant, 4 shares; all Aberdeen.
13/11/1847: Registration cancelled, broken up.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1784-94: Master G. Wilson
1795: Master A. MacKay
1808-14: Master Brown
1836: Master William Jack
1840: Master David Benzie
1840-43: Master G. Lees

Voyages:
1784-86: Hull - Rotterdam
1791-94: Leith - Sunderland
1808-14: London - Gibraltar
1836-43: Aberdeen coaster

Note: Lengthened and repaired 1803 (Lloyd's underwriters 1808 S supplement 63), Dimensions in 1830 were length 54.5' x breadth 18.1' x depth 9'. New wales and topsides 1834 (Lloyd's 1836, S960)