ISABELLA

Date1815

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 62'2" x breadth 18'7" x depth 9'7"
gross tonnage 86 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002858

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's underwriters 1833 (I235), or possibly 1837 (I157)*

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, pink sterned, carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1818-19: Nelson & Co.
1819-21: Captain & Co. (Smith & Co.)
1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
William Simpson, merchant, 20 shares; Andrew Geddes, merchant, 20 shares; John Smith, shipmaster, 8 shares.
Other owners in 1825: Robert Catto, merchant, 8 shares; William Reid, flesher, 4 shares; Alexander McConachie, Merchant, City of London, 4 shares.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1827-33: Owners, Harrat & Co (Lloyd's underwriters)

Masters:
1818-21: Master J. Smith
1821-22: Master J. Cooper
1823-25: Master Robert Campbell
1826-27: Master Cowder
1827-28: Master J. Banks
1828-30: Master McIntyre
1831-33: Master McKenly

Voyages (from Lloyd's)
1818-19: London - Tenerife
1820-21: Dartmouth - Aberdeen
1821-22: Yarmouth - Aberdeen
1823-24: Waterford - London
1824-25: Belfast - Cork
1826-27: Aberdeen coaster
1827-32: Liverpool - Ireland
1832-33: Cork coaster

Note: A "Pink" was a name given to a small ship with a narrow stern and shallow draft, from the Dutch "Pincke".