GOOD INTENT

Shipownervessel built for Alexander Gibbon (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date1816

Object NameSNOW

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsDepth 12'
Gross tonnage 159 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002948

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: wrecked on South Uist, 14 January 1825.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged, 1 flush deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1824: Re-registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners:
Alexander Gibbon, merchant, 8 shares; John Smith, merchant, 24 shares; Hugh Thomson, shipmaster, 8 shares; all Aberdeen.
Other owners in 1824;
William Pirie, 8 shares; Patrick Pirie, 4 shares; John Johnstone, 4 shares; Alexander Cowie, 4 shares; all merchants, Aberdeen.
Reverend Charles Gordon and Alexander Smith of Glenmillian, advocate, as Executors of the late, Robert Charles Grant, advocate in Aberdeen, 4 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1823-24: Hugh Thomson

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1823-24: Dublin - St. Johns, Canada

General History:
06/02/1825:
The GOOD INTENT, Thompson, from St. John's New Brunswick, to Aberdeen, was totally wrecked 14th ult. at South Uist - Crew Saved.
(Colonist and Commercial Weekly Advertiser)