ISABELLA

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateMarch 1839

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD; Oak, Fir and Larch

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 74' 6" x breadth 19' 4" x depth 12' 9"
tonnage 156 tons New Measurement
tonnage 165 Old Measurement

Object numberABDSHIP000470

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Post Office Aberdeen Directory 1861-62 (p. 98).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, a female bust figurehead. ISABELLA has no figurehead by 15 November 1860 (Aberdeen Register)

Owners:
1839: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Thompson Jnr., shipowner, 8 shares, James Goldie, shipowner, 8 shares, Alexander Hay, shipowner, 8 shares. All Aberdeen.
Other shareholders: William Duthie, shipowner, 8 shares; Robert Mitchell, shipowner, 4 shares; Andrew Crane, shipmaster, 4 shares; William Campbell, shipmaster, 4 shares; George Watson, merchant, 4 shares; John Lumsden, merchant, 4 shares; James Winlaw Jnr., clerk, 4 shares; Isabella Hay, wife of James Hay, merchant, 4 shares, All Aberdeen; James Spring, farmer, East Ardo, Kincardine, 4 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1839-40: Master William Campbell
1841-52: Master J. Nicol
1853: Master Lindsay (Post Office Aberdeen Directory (PO) p.61)
1854: Master Reid (PO)
1855-56: Master Burgess (PO)
1857-60: Master Smith (PO)
1861: Master Crawford (PO)
A note in the Aberdeen Register dated 20 August 1853, states that James Lee, Greenock, is now master, though he does not appear in the Post Office Directories

Voyages (from Lloyd's)
1839-40: Aberdeen - London
1841-42: Aberdeen - Archangel (Russia)
1843-44: Aberdeen - Marseilles
1844-45: Aberdeen - St. Petersburg