EARL OF ERROL

Date1769

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionstonnage 60 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002723

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1787 (E25)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Sloop rigged, 1 deck.

Owner:
1778-87: Captain (Andrew Durno)

Master:
1778-87: Master Andrew Durno (with Ebenezer Bonner sometimes substituting)

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1778-84: Aberdeen - London
1786: Bristol - Bilbao
1787: Seville - Bilbao

Voyages from news reports:

1771-82: 16 Voyages from Aberdeen to London under Andrew Durno.
(Sources: Public Advertiser 14/09/1771, 25/12/1771, 23/04/1772, 26/06/1772, 20/08/1772, 23/12/1772, 18/09/1773, 31/12/1773, 10/10/1774, 05/06/1775, 24/08/1776, 8/10/1776, 09/11/1780, 01/02/1781, 21/06/1782 and 27/11/1782)
1776-83: 6 Voyages from Aberdeen or Inverness to London under Master Ebenezer Bonner.
(Sources: Public Advertiser 30/12/1776, 29/07/1777, 07/10/1777, 06/04/1778, 04/06/1778 and 15/04/1783)

25/03/1777 & 17/06/1777:
Voyages from Fort George, Inverness, to Portsmouth as a troopship carrying the 26th and 28th regiments.
(St. James' Chronicle)

26/03/1777:
On Saturday morning, about 8 o'clock, one of the soldiers, William Stanley, an Englishman, jumped overboard in the bay and perished.
(Public Advertiser)

29/07/1780:
Voyage from London to Leith, carrying cannon for a new battery there; Master - Durno.
(St. James' Chronicle)

08/10/1782
Voyage from Leith to Shetland, as troopship carrying the North Fencibles Regiment to garrison Fort Charlotte; Master Durno.
(London Chronicle)

1783-86: Voyages from London to Various Spanish ports under Master Andrew Durno.
(Sources: Public Advertiser 19/11/1783 [Gibraltar], Whitehall Evening Post 23/09/1784 [Corunna], Public Advertiser 08/11/1784 [Gibraltar], 31/03/1785 [Seville], 18/04/1785 [Bilbao], 05/12/1785 [Cadiz] and 18/02/1786 [Seville to Bristol])

Note: 1782: Large Repairs