EARL OF CARLISLE

Shipbuildervessel built by Brands & Scorgie (Inches, Aberdeen)

DateJuly 1853

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD; Oak and Larch

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 92.8' x breadth 21.6' x depth 13.3'
gross tonnage 192 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002940

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Brands & Scorgie

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1869 (E34)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, fixed bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, male figurehead.

Owner:
1853: registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
Thomas Wright, timber merchant, Aberdeen.
01/1854: Mortgage transferred to James Westland, Manager of the North of Scotland Bank.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1861-69: J. Hulbert, registered at London

Masters:
1854-57: Master J. Smith
1858-59: Master W. Wood
1861-69: Master A. Gordon

Voyages (Lloyd's register):
1854-57: Aberdeen - Baltic
1858-59: London - Cape of Good Hope
1861-69: London

General History:
07/11/1860:
Brig EARL OF CARLISLE, of Aberdeen, of burthen 192 tons, is to be sold by private bargain. Offers to Mr. Francis Edmond, Advocate in Aberdeen.
(Aberdeen Journal)

01/10/1870:
Captain Pitt of brig EARL OF CARLISLE, which arrived here from Memel, reports that one of his crew, a native of Sweden named Olav Anderson, about 22 years, was washed overboard during a gale from SW, and was never seen afterwards.
(Ipswich Journal)

Note: Roundhouse erected on deck January 1859, tonnage now 207, as of info. from Register, London. (Aberdeen Register)