FLORA

Date1781

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionstonnage 200 tons
draught 12'

Object numberABDSHIP002744

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last mentioned in Lloyd's register 1814 (F318)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck with beams, sheathed with copper 1791

Owners:
1782-86: Sinclair & Co.
1786-96: Aiken & Co. (Master as owner)
1797-1814: J. Calvert

Masters:
1781: T. Aitken
1784: Muirhead/ T Aitken
1786: C. Eggleston/ T. Aiken
1787-96: T. Aiken
1797-99: Calvert (unclear whether the owner J. Calvert, or G. Calvert)
1800-14: G. Calvert

Voyages:
1782: London
1784-88: London - Lisbon
1789: Liverpool - the Straits [of Gibraltar]
1790-91: London - Koenigsburg (Prussia; now Kaliningrad, Russia)
1792: London - Riga
1793: London - Leghorn (Livorno)
1794-96: London - the Straits [of Gibraltar]
1797-1800: London - Hamburg
1801-03: London coaster
1804-07: London - Bremen
1808-14: Liverpool - 'Merri' [Merrimack river Massachusetts?]

Note: the tonnage is innitially given as 200 (Lloyds 1782, F422), then reduced (possibly first measured properly) to 136 (1790, F150) and then the ship was rebuilt and lengthened in 1800, so much so that it might be thought of as a new ship with her tonnage more than doubled to 297 tons (see Lloyd's 1802, F255).