TRAVELLER

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateDecember 1839

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD; Beech, Larch, Oak and Elm

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 77.4' x breadth 19.8' x depth 13.7'
gross tonnage 168 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000476

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: Lost sometime before March 1844, circumstances unknown

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, man bust figurehead.

Owners:
10/01/1840: Registered for subscribing owners; James Goldie, 4 shares; Alexander Hay, 6 shares, both shipowners; George Watson, 6 shares; shoemaker, all Aberdeen.
Other owners; James Elliot, shipmaster, 8 shares; Andrew Carnie, 4 shares; George Allan, 4 shares; Alexander Brands, 4 shares; James Tulloch, 4 shares, all shipmasters; William Jameson, coal agent, 4 shares; Robert Mitchell, shipowner, 4 shares; Robert Harper, ship's carpenter, 2 shares, all Aberdeen; Andrew Edward, farmer, Kirkhill, 4 shares; James Spring, farmer, Easterard, 4 shares; John Hector, salmon fisher, Torry 4 shares; Robert Martin, flesher, Woodside, Banchory, 4 shares.
04/05/1842: Brand's 4 shares to George Gray, merchant, Aberdeen.
15/02/1843: George Allan 4 shares to George Allan, writer, Aberdeen.
16/10/1843: John Hector 4 shares to Robert Sangster, flesher, Aberdeen.
07/03/1844: Certificate delivered up and cancelled, vessel having been totally lost.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1840: Master Alexander Brand
1842-43: Master J. Keay

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1842: Dublin - Quebec
1843: London - Cape Coast (South Africa)

26/10/1842:
Cleared outwards [to leave London] for Cape Coast Castle, TRAVELLER, Keay
(Lloyd's List)

14/06/1843:
Custom House [London] 13 June: entered inwards - TRAVELLER, Keay, from Accra
(Morning Post (London))