ROMULUS

Date1807

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionsgross tonnage 137 tons
depth 12'

Object numberABDSHIP002963

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1847 (R363).

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

Owners:
1807-31: Ogilvie & Co.
1832-41: E. Watson, registered at Leith (initially given as Watson & Co.)
1842-45: J. Turcan, registered at Leith
1845-47: Prest, registered at Wisbech

Masters:
1807-08: Master J. Brown
1808-15: Master W. Goodman
1816-19: Master W. Milne
1818-31: Master R. Henderson
1831-35: Master J. Watt
1835-40: Master T. Garson
1841-43: Master R. Paton
1844-45: Master A. Hunter
1846-47: Master May

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1807-08: Leith - Tönning (Schleswig-Holstein, then Denmark, now Germany)
1809-15: Leith - London
1816: London - Stolpe (Stolpmünde, then Prussia, now Ustka, Poland)
1818-19: Leith - Dantzig
1820: Leith - Gothenburg
1821: Leith - Riga
1822-23: Leith - Archangel
1824: Leith - Memel (then Prussia, now Klaipeda, Lithuania)
1825-31: Leith - Gothenburg
1832-33: Plymouth coaster
1835-37: Leith - Lisbon
1838-40: Leith - Cadiz
1841: Leith - Lisbon
1842-43: Leith - Archangel
1844-45: Leith - St. Petersburg
1845-46: Sunderland coaster

General History:
10/02/1847:
SALES BY AUCTION. At LLOYD’S CAPTAINS’ ROOM, ROYAL EXCHANGE. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1847, at Half-past Two o’clock (Unless previously disposed by private contract), THE fine Brig ROMULUS, of Wisbech, 138 55-94 tons O.M. built at Aberdeen, in 1807. has had extensive repairs, and is now classed AE1 at Lloyd’s; carries about 250 tons of coals, and 200 loads of timber; is a strong useful vessel, shifts without ballast, and abundantly found in good and useful stores. Now lying the West India South Dock. For inventories and further particulars apply to WOOLCOMBE and Co., Sworn Brokers, 76 Cornhill; or to JAMES PANTON, Sworn Broker. A 1, Bishops gate-street Within
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)