EXCELLENT

Date1825

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD WITH IRON BOLTS

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 67' 9" x breadth 24' x depth 11' 4"
tonnage 119 16/94tons

Object numberABDSHIP002819

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Rob & Peter Mathieson

Fate: Wrecked near Yarmouth, 26 October 1829

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square sterned, no galleries or figurehead, constructed of wood and fir with iron bolts and iron cables.

Owners:
18/08/1825: Registered at Aberdeen by subscribing owners Alexander Farquharson, ship chandler; William Cooper, merchant; Robert Mathieson, shipbuilder.
Other owners: Peter Nicol, Seaton Farm, 8 shares; Alexander Yule, shipmaster, 8 shares; John Duncan, advocate, 4 shares; James Nicol, advocate, 4 shares; John Johnton Jnr, merchant, 4 shares; Tom Alexander, merchant, 4 shares; John Pratt, merchant, 4 shares; William Hay, mason, 4 shares; George Watt, carpenter, 4 shares; Alexander Sievwright, joiner, 4 shares; all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) 1825 (no. 78))

Masters:
1825-28: Master James Elliot;
1828: Master Alexander Whyte

Voyages (from Lloyds underwriters):
1827-28: Cork - London

04/11/1829:
Yarmouth October 26 - The EXCELLENT, White, of and for Aberdeen, from London, struck on the outer bank off Palling, near Yarmouth, during thick weather, on Friday last, the wind at the time being N.NW. and, after striking for an hour, she drifted on to the main, where she lies, about 15 miles north of Yarmouth: crew and part of the stores saved; vessel expected to break up.
(Aberdeen Journal)