CHARMING BETSY

Date1765

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsGross tonnage: 150 tons.

Object numberABDSHIP003030.126

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged

Owner:
1776: Capt. (Alexander Auld).

Master:
1776: Master Alexander Auld.

Voyages:
1776: London - Gibraltar.

General History:
05/08/1774 & 14/09/1774:
For Gibraltar directly, the CHARMING BETSY, Alexander Auld commander, burthen 160 tons, guns and men answerable lying at the Union Stairs. The commander to be spoken with every morning at Sam's Coffee Howe near the Cluton-howe, at the Exchange at exchange fire, and after, at Will's Coffee House or Hubbert And Donovan for the commander.
(Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser)

25/11/1775:
The CHARMING BETSY, Auld, was run ashore on the coast of France the 16th instant in a violent gale of wind, and went unload to repair.
(Middlesex Journal and Evening Advertiser)

04/04/1780:
Extract from a letter from Penzance April 1 1780: "Arrived the CHARMING BETSY, a French packet from the Canaries bound to Martinique, Jean Gayetche, taken by the Minerva Privateer of Jersey, Alexander Rundell, in let. 37, long. 13 with the mail onbaord she was taken the 16th ult."
(Whitehall Evening Post)

Note:
Possible original name of the vessel ARIADNE. Lloyd's gives nothing after the tonnage which usually implies it has two decks, but at only 150 tons this seems unlikely and the failure to mention that it has a single deck may be a printing error (Lloyds Register 1776, C181)