GENERAL HAVELOCK

Date1859

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 112' x breadth 24' x depth 13.7'
gross tonnage 224 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002897

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: David Burns & Co

Fate: Sank off Whitby, 15 November 1870.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 2 masts, 1 deck, round stern, carvel built, male figurehead, no galleries.

Owners:
1859: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner:
Charles Wilson, 30 shares, plus 10 others.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1859-62: Master L. Jack
1863-65: Master T. Phillips
1866-70: Master A. Watson

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1859: Aberdeen - Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth, South Africa).
1861-62: Shields - India
1863-67: Aberdeen - Baltic
1868-70: London - Buenos Aires

General History:
20/11/1863:
Brig GENERAL HAVELOCK, from Ochotia for Aberdeen, picked up and took aboard crew of 6 of Dutch schooner STELLA (abandoned in a sinking state).
(Glasgow Herald)

30/11/1870:
Report of Charles Sanders, Master of the Brig ALBERT H. LOCKE, of and from Littlehampton, 222 tons, for Sunderland (ballast) (as before reported):—Left Littlehampton Nov. 12. Proceeded, and on 15th, at 9 45 p.m., weather clear, wind N.W., fresh, ship being of Whitby, the light bearing N.W. W., about seven miles, with her head N.N.E., close-hauled, [...] going about four knots, I was the cabin on deck, when I heard the Mate say, Master, come up; here is ship close board of us.” I was on deck in half a minute, but the ship struck before I got out of the door. Our lights wore the best composite candles and were burning brightly. Our stem went into her starboard bow, just before the fore rigging, and our bead stem and jibboom were carried away, with other damage. The vessel was the brig GENERAL HAVELOCK, of Aberdeen. She rebounded from us. We backed our yards, and the ship went clear. They hailed us, saying the ship was sinking, upon which sent our boat to her; but seven of their Crew had got into their own boat. Our boat picked up the Captain, who was floating on a spar, the vessel having just gone down. The Master told us that one man was missing.
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)