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GLASGOW PACKET

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateAugust 1811

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 58 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12' x depth 9 6/12'
gross tonnage: 83 ton

Object numberABDSHIP000887

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: A. Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 2

Fate: unknown, last in Post Office Aberdeen Directory 1850, p. 42.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: sloop rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead

Owners:
1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners:
Robert Catto, Merchant, William Pirie, merchant, George Thomson, merchant,Alex. Brown, merchant,George Pirie, William Catto, merchant as Trustees for the Aberdeen & Leith & Clyde Shipping Company
1836: Owned by Robert Catto, Alexander Brown and George Thomson, merchants.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 144, 1825)

Masters:
1836: Master John Smart (Aberdeen Register)
1840-45: Master Paterson (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)
1846-49: Master Rennie (PO)

Note: sometimes described as Smack rigged in the Post Office Aberdeen Directory