ATLAS

Date1817

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionsgross tonnage 154 tons
depth 12'

Object numberABDSHIP002959

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: uncertain, possibly wrecked at Blyth, 24 November 1854.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck with beams.

Owners:
1818-23: Gibbon & Co.
1923-29: C. Walton
1830: Brown & Co.
1839-41: J. & G. Carr, registered at Berwick
1842-52: W. Smith, registered at Blyth

Masters:
1818-19: Master J. Struthers
1819-22: Master Harrison
1823-27: Master J. Walton
1828-30: Master J. Fell
1830-33: Master H. Dinon
1839-41: Master T. Crow
1842-49: Master T. Smith
1850-52: Master G. Ferrow

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1818-19: Leith - Sunderland
1820: London - Rio de Janeiro
1821-22: Liverpool - Jamaica
1823: London - Buenos Aires
1824-26: Liverpool - Lima
1827: London - Jamaica
1828: London - Rio de Janeiro
1829-30: London - Newfoundland
1831-33: Yarmouth - North
1839-41: Berwick - Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania)
1842-44: Blyth - London
1845-46: Blyth - Honfleur
1847-48: Blyth - Le Havre
1849: Blyth coaster
1850-51: Blyth - Rouen

General History:
09/09/1819:
Falmouth, 6 September 1819: Brig ATLAS, Harrison, from St. Domingo, with coffee and logwood for orders.
(Exeter Flying Post)

14/09/1835:
To be sold by auction at Hen & Chicken Inn, Berwick-upon-Tweed 19 November, brig ATLAS, of Berwick, 193 tons register, carries 13 and a half keels of coals at light draught of water, sails well, shifts without ballast, is well found with stores, was built at Aberdeen 1817, and was lengthened and had a complete and expensive repair in the river Tyne 1833. ATLAS now on the slipway of Berwick for examination by the underwriters, having received damage on her arrival in river Tyne.
(Newcastle Courant)

01/12/1854:
Blyth Nov. 24
Last night, about half-past five, the brig ATLAS, Ferrow, of this port, from Dunkirk, in coming for this harbour, the wind blowing strong from the N.E., and sea very high at the time, got on the shore upon the sand on the south side of the harbour; crew landed. She appears not to have received much damage.
(Newcastle Courant)
The lack of any later references suggests this assessment was premature