ADVENTURE

Date1772

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionstonnage 90 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002826

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1782 (A51) see note.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Sloop rigged, 1 deck

Owner:
1776-82: Leys & Co.

Master:
1776-82: Master J. Aitken

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1776-82: London - Aberdeen

General History:
Newspaper reports [sometimes contradicting the route given to Lloyd's which was a broad intention only]
1772-1783: Voyages from Aberdeen to Campvere, Netherlands; Master - John Aiken.
(Sources: St. James' Chronicle 03/12/1772; General Evening Post 01/04/1773; London Evening Post 26/08/1773; Public Advertiser 26/03/177, 28/01/1786 & 16/11/1783)

1775-1777: Voyages from Aberdeen to London, Master - John Aiken.
(Sources: Public Advertiser 10/05/1775, 26/09/1775 & 13/06/1777)

1782: Voyage from Aberdeen to London; Master - John Thompson.
(Sources: London Packet 13/02/1782; Public Advertiser 26/3/1782)

1787: Voyage from Limerick to Hull; Master - John Thompson.
(Source: Public Advertiser 21/06/1787)

26/03/1777:
"Extract of a latter from Aberdeen March 17th - The cargo of the ADVENTURE, Aitken, which sailed for Campvere last week, is one of the most valuable that has been sent out of this place: it consists of stockings to the amount of about £24,000."
(Public Advertiser)

Note: Possibly lost near Brest January 1793
06/02/1793:
"The Adventure, Thompson, from Yarmouth to the Mediterranean, is lost near Brest"
(True Briton (London))