MAXWELL

Date1817

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 58'4" x breadth 18'8" x depth 8'11"
gross tonnage 81 66/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002865

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's register 1837 (M679)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead.

Owners
1825 Re-registered at Aberdeen by owners:
John Gill, shipowner, 8 shares; John Donaldson, flesher, 4 shares; William Burgess, shipmaster, 4 shares.
plus 2 other shareholders:
John Black of Foveran, shipowner 40 shares; Alex Craigie, shipmaster, 8 shares
Registration cancelled in 1829, after alteration to rigging Re-registered as No. 17 in 1829 Register)
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) 1825, no. 110)

Masters:
1819-20: Master G. Findley
1822-37: Master William Burgess

Voyages:
1819-22: Yarmouth coaster
1824: London coaster
1825-33: Belfast - London

General History:
03/01/1825:
Schooner MAXWELL, of Aberdeen, Burgess master, Waterford to London with a general cargo, was driven ashore on Ballyferna Point, four miles south of Donaghadie, in a hard gale of wind on 22 ultimo [December] but was as got off the rocks on the 25th with her keel broken in different places and her bottom damaged. Cargo, which had been previously landed, was with difficulty saved from the predatory attempts of the country people, whose ferocious attacks could only be repelled by the military and the coastguard, by whom several of them were wounded. Vessel expected to be carried up to Belfast.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))

17/11/1827:
Schooner MAXWELL, of Aberdeen, master Burgess, London to Sunderland in Ballast, was taken with a violent gale from north on 30th October and after being driven to the coast of France was obliged to run into Calais.
(Newcastle Courant)

Note: Lloyd's has this schooner as Newburgh built