ACTIVE

Date1801

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 56' 3" x breadth 17' 5" x depth 9' 7"
tonnage 70 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002815

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: wrecked south of Whitby 30 January 1827

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

Owners:
1808-24: R. Tower (Lloyd's underwriters)
1824: Alexander Yule, shipmaster, Aberdeen, 64 shares
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1808-24: Master A. Phillips
1824-25: Master A. Yule
1827: Master G. Ware [or Weir]

Voyages (from Lloyd's underwriters)
1808: Yarmouth - Sunderland
1809-13: London - Gothenburg
1814-18: London - Heligoland
1824-27: Yarmouth coaster

General History:
29/06/1814:
The sloop ACTIVE, Philip, from London to Sunderland, put into Whitby with loss of her mast.
(Aberdeen Journal)

07/02/1827:
The sloop ACTIVE, Weir, of and for Aberdeen, from Sunderland, was running along Yorkshire coast (where she had been driven) when she struck Whitby Rock at midnight. She backed off and immediately sank in deep water. The crew had little more than time to get into the boat when the vessel disappeared.
(Aberdeen Journal)

30/01/1827, near Whitby, voyage Sunderland to Aberdeen, "struck on rock to southward of this place last night and sank in deep water. Crew saved".
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), “Shipwreck Index of the British Isles” (Lloyd’s Register, London), vol. 3, section 5)