WILLIAM MAITLAND

Date1839

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD Rig: Brig

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionsgross tonnage 166 tons (old); 159 tons (new measurement)
Length 76' 2" x breadth 19' 7" x depth 12' 5"

Object numberABDSHIP002902

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Ronald & Co.

Fate: wrecked at Atwick near Bridlington, 10 February 1871

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts and a topsail, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, a male bust figurehead.

Owners:
1839: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Robert Maitland, merchant, 8 shares; Charles Rennie, merchant, 8 shares; William Levie, shipmaster, 4 shares.
Other shareholders; William Maitland, 8 shares; William Davidson, 8 shares; Robert Mitchell, 8 shares; William Connon, 12 shares, all Aberdeen merchants. John Manson, distiller, Old Meldrum, 8 shares.
20/09/1851:the owners of this vessel have transferred by bills of sale, 64 shares to John Robertson, master mariner, of North Shields, Northumberland.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1839-46: Master Levie
1847-50: Master J. Main
1849: Master John Mennie (Aberdeen Register)

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1839-43: Aberdeen - Riga
1844-46: Aberdeen - Baltic
1847-48: Aberdeen coaster
1849: Hull - St. Petersburg

General History:
09/03/1849:
For sale by private contract, all the very substantial brig WILLIAM MAITLAND, of Aberdeen, 159 tons. This very handy vessel was built at Aberdeen in 1839 expressly for her present owners, by whom she has always been kept in first rate order. It is well found, sails fast and carries a large cargo at light draught of water, shifts without and requires little ballast. Is expected in the Tyne in a day or two.
(Newcastle Courant)

15/11/1861:
Brig WILLIAM MAITLAND, Brown master, of this port in ballast, in attempting to take Whitby harbour on 10 Nov. on ebb tide and with scant wind, struck on the bar, unshipped her rudder, backed out to sea and came to anchor in a leeward berth, where she remains.
(Newcastle Courant)

18/02/1871:
Brig WILLIAM MAITLAND was wrecked at Ulrome about 4 p.m., one man out of the crew of six saving himself by a life buoy.
(York Herald)

10/02/1871: WILLIAM MAITLAND
Atwick near Bridlington
Vessel stranded and lost in wind conditions E.S.E. force 10.
On a voyage from Hartlepool to Chatham with a cargo of coal and other unspecified cargo. Registered port Whitby.
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" (Lloyd's Register, London), vol. 3, section 5)