DOLPHIN

Date17 September 1798

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 58'6" x breadth 18'5" x depth 10'7"
gross tonnage 82 13/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002880

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: Lost 10 March 1837, location unknown.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Sloop rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead

Owners:
1804: James Gibbon & Co.
30/12/1825: Re-registered at Aberdeen by subscribing owners;
Alec Gibbon, merchant, 25 shares; James Gibbon, merchant, 29 shares; James Duguid, Merchant, 4/64
Plus 3 other shareholders in 1825:
James Brebner, shipmaster, 1 share; Joseph Snowball, 4 shares; John Hudson, 1 share (2 of whom were 'wharfingers' in Newcastle upon Tyne)
10/03/1837: Totally lost.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) 1825, no. 169)

Masters:
1804: Master Benjamin Robertson
1825: Master Angus MacDonald

Voyage:
1825: Aberdeen coaster

Note: This ship does not appear in Lloyd's all information is from Aberdeen register which does not start in its full form until 1824 but there is a printed list for 1804.