ADVENTURE

DateMay 1828

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD, BEECH

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 42' x breadth 14.6' x depth 8'
gross tonnage 35 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002986

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: George Levie

Fate: uncertain, possibly lost in a gale in the North Sea, 19 January 1835.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead.

Owners:
1828: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Levie, 32 shares; Walter Hood, 32 shares; both shipbuilders in Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1830-33: Owner J. Simpson

Masters:
1828: Master George Levie (Aberdeen Register)
1830-33: Master W. Laing

Voyages
1830-33: Leith coaster

General History:
14/02/1835:
"The Sloop ADVENTURE, Wiseman, of and for Portsoy, sailed from Sunderland on the 18th ult. [i.e. January] (being the day preceding the late disastrous gale) and has not since been heard of"
(Newcastle Courant)

ADVENTURE, left Sunderland for Portsoy 18-01-1835 not heard of since.
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), “Shipwreck Index of the British Isles” (Lloyd’s Register, London), vol. 3) [this is likely to be, but is not confirmed as the Aberdeen built Adventure of 1828]