ISABELLA BROWN

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Shipownervessel built for Alexander Milne (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date1840

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD; Elm, Larch and Fir

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsLength: 77.6 ft
Breadth: 20ft
Depth: 13.2 ft.
Tonnage: 153 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000481

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: wrecked on Castle Island Reef (possibly Portrush, NI), May 1843

Propulsion: Sail
Description: brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowpsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, female bust figurehead, copper sheathed in 1841.

Owners:
1840: Registered in Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Milne, shipowner, Aberdeen, 44 shares; Robert Brown, shipowner, Aberdeen, 8 shares; James Palmer, shipowner, Aberdeen, 4 shares.
Other shareholders; Benjamin Waters, merchant, London, 8 shares.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1840: Master James Chalmers.
1841-42: Master J. Palmer

Voyage (from Lloyd's):
1841-42: London - Montevideo (Uruguay)

23/05/1843:
HOLYHEAD, May 19.—Arrived the Victoria, Hudson, from Nassau, having on board thy maser of the Thompson, of Hartlepool, wrecked in the Crooked Island Passage [Bahamas], and the master of the ISABELLA BROWN, of Aberdeen, wrecked on Castle Island Reef.
(Morning Herald (London))