EARL OF ERROL

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateJune 1828

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 75.6' x breadth 21' x depth 12.9'
gross tonnage 131 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000438

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: Sunk on Kentish Knock, 20 January 1852

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, mans bust figurehead

Owners:
1835: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Milne, merchant, 64 shares.
05/09/1835: A. Milne transferred by Bill of Sale 20 shares to Robert Brown, shipmaster, Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1842: Pearson, now registered in Sunderland

Masters:
1834: Master T. Ritchie
1835-41: Master R. Brown
1842-47: Master Cunningham

Voyages:
1834: Aberdeen - Riga
1834-41: Aberdeen - London
1842-47: Sunderland coaster

General History:
30/01/1852:
"The brig EARL OF ERROL, Patterson, of Sunderland, from Sunderland for Boulogne, sprung a lait on Monday the 19th inst. at midnight, and went down on Tuesday morning at 8 30; crew saved, all well, but lost all their clothes; got on board the Kentish Knock light vessel in the long boat, and were taken in to Dover by the BLUE-EYED MAID fishing smack on the 24th inst."
(Newcastle Courant)

Wrecked Thames, Kentish Knock, 1852:
On a voyage from Sunderland to Boulogne the barque, EARL OF ERROL, under Capt. Patterson with a cargo of coal sprung a severe leak in wind conditions S.W. Force 10. The crew were saved by boarding the Kentish Knock light vessel.
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), “Shipwreck Index of the British Isles” (Lloyd’s Register, London))

Notes: Part new deck and some repairs 1845.