WANDERER

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date5 February 1824

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 66'4" x breadth 20'2" x depth 11'7"
gross tonnage 110 27/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000418

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's underwriters 1831 (W31)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 flush deck with beams, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel build, no galleries, female bust head.

Owners:
1824: Registered in Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Mortimer, baker, Aberdeen 24 shares; Robert Spring, baker, Aberdeen, 8 shares; William Moffat, shipmaster, Aberdeen 8 shares, and sundry other owners.
24/07/1830: Mrs Euphemia Barclay Moffat as executor of the late Wm Moffat transferred 8/64 to John Mitchell, shipmaster.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1824-26: Master Wm Moffat
1827: Master G. Brook
1827-29: Master John Mitchell
1830-31: Master Smith

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1824-25: London coaster
1826-27: Plymouth - Straits of Gibraltar
1828: Liverpool - Straits of Gibraltar
1829: London - Straits of Gibraltar
1830: Falmouth
1831: Liverpool

General History:
06/10/1829:
List of British vessels in the Bay of Smyrna [Izmir, Turkye] Sept. 4. 1829:
Schooner WANDERER, Capt. Mitchell, addressed to Messers Lafontaine & Co., on the berth for London.
(Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser)