PATRIOT

Shipownervessel built for Catto & Co. (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date1810

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionsgross tonnage 198 tons

Object numberABDSHIP003011

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: Lost at Cape Rosier, St. Lawrence River, 7 May 1834.

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

Owners:
1812-19: Catto & Co.
1819-20: Perie & Co.
1821-27: Catto & Co.

Masters:
1812-27: Master Anderson

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1812-16: London Transport (contracted to the Transport board)
1818: Greenock - Quebec
1819-26: Liverpool - Quebec
1827: London - Nova Scotia

General History:
04/1812: Master Alexander Anderson, 2 passengers, arrival port Quebec. Advertised as "a fine new brig". "Quebec Gazette" May 30th, "Aberdeen Journal" - February 26th.
03/1817: 14 passengers for Quebec. 50 packages passengers' clothes and belongings.
04/1819: 7 passengers, "Quebec Mercury" 12th May
(Lucille H. Campey (2002), "'Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed': Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots they carried to Canada 1774-1855" (Natural Heritage Books, Toronto), pp. 19, 23-24)

15/05/1815:
Letters received of brig, PATRIOT, Anderson, at Bermuda, one of the transports for whose safety some apprehensions were entertained.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))

20/10/1819:
To be sold by public roup 1 November in New Inn, Aberdeen, 1/12 of brig PATRIOT, 190 tons.
(Aberdeen Journal)

27/02/1822:
1st spring ship for Quebec - fine new brig presently finishing in Nicol, Reid & Co.'s yard, Master Capt. Anderson (formerly of the PATRIOT) will sail from Aberdeen by 1 April, the fine well known brig PATRIOT, Capt. Troup will sail from Aberdeen by 15 March for St. John's, New Brunswick.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))

27/08/1829:
Greenock, 25 Aug. - sailed to Montego Bay, Jamaica, brig PATRIOT of Aberdeen.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))

19/07/1834:
Brig PATRIOT, Anderson, from Aberdeen for Quebec, lost at Cape Rosier, Gaspa, 7 May. No lives lost.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))