ELIZA HALL

Shipbuildervessel built by Walter Hood & Co. (Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)

Date1843

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 87 3/12' x breadth 20' x depth 14'
Registered Tonnage: 200ton (194 tons in 1844)

Object numberABDSHIP000310

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Walter Hood & Co.

Fate: Vessel wrecked outside Granton breakwater, 22 October 1864.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rig (Hermaphrodite), 1 deck, 2 masts, female bust figurehead.

Owners:
20/06/1843: Registered at Aberdeen for Subscribing owners:
George Rennie and others.
04/1854: W. Nicol of Liverpool. (Lloyd's)
1855: E. Turner, Whitby.

Masters:
1845-51: Master G. Rennie.
1852: Master Cameron.
1856: Master R. Turner.
1857: Master H. Dale.
1859: Master J. Crooks.
1863: Master J. Ritchie.

Voyages:
1844: Aberdeen - Riga
1845-51: Aberdeen - Ichaboe (Nambia)
1852: Clyde - West Indies
1853: Dartmouth - Rio de Janeiro
1856: Whitby - Arbroath
1858: Whitby - London
1859: Hartlepool - Baltic
1863: London Coaster

07/05/1851:
ELIZA HALL, from Falmouth for Pernambuco (Brazil), at mid-Atlantic between West Africa and Brazil.
(Daily News)

15/06/1855:
For sale by private contract, all the fine first-class brig ELIZA HALL, of Liverpool, 199 tons register. This very superior vessel was built in Aberdeen in 1843. Always kept in best of order and is now most abundantly found in stores of excellent quality, carries upwards of 15 keels of coals on a light draft of water; shifts without and requires little ballast; sails fast. She is altogether a most desirable vessel for any trade her size may suit; may be inspected where she now lies at Worth Shore here. Particulars from Captain Eddington aboard, Benjamin Waters (Newcastle-on-Tyne).
(Newcastle Courant)

26/10/1864:
Stormm and floods on east coast. ELIZA HALL of Whitby driven in at back of East Breakwater of Granton Harbour at height of gale on Saturday. She was commanded by Captain Carr and was bound from Gefle, Sweden to London with cargo of wood and iron. She had run to the Forth for shelter, but parted her cables and drove ashore on Sunday. Her crew were taken off by a party of officers and men from the VICTORIA, Revenue Cutter and PRINCESS ROYALl, Fishery Cutter, who got a line aboard the ship and then drew the men ashore singly in a sling. Shortly after the vessel struck her mainmast went over the side and she thumped so heavily that her bottom and the side on which she lay were literally ground out and she now lies a total wreck, with remains of her spars and rigging floating around her. Crew have saved their effects and greater part of her sails and running rigging has been got ashore.
(Glasgow Herald)