EDINBURGH PACKET

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

Date19 July 1812

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 60'2" x breadth 18'11" x depth 10'3"
Registered Tonnage: 89 ton

Object numberABDSHIP000889

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 4

Fate: wrecked near Rota, north of Cadiz, Spain, 24 July 1852.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged (Lloyds) then schooner rigged (1840s Aberdeen Register), 1 deck, 1 mast, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1812: First Registered July 1812 (see Aberdeen Register of Shipping, No 27)
1824: Re-registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Aberdeen, Leith and Clyde Shipping Company of Aberdeen, 64 shares,
Robert Catto, William Pirie, George Thomson, trustees
plus William Catto, Alex Brown, George Pirie
1836: Robert Catto, merchant, Alexander Brown, merchant and George Thomson, merchant. 64 shares jointly.
1840: William Beedie, carpenter, Aberdeen, 64 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1847-48: Cook & Reith, registered at Aberdeen (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)
1849-51: John Cook (PO)
1852: John McLauchlan (PO)

Masters:
1812-18: Master McDonald
1819-27: Master J. Hossack
1827-31: Master Norrie
1832-40: Master W. Rogers
1840-41: Master Christie (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)
1842: Master Rennie (PO)
1847-48: Master Mckenzie (PO)
1849: Master Hay (PO)
1850-51: Master Henderson (PO)

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1812-14: Aberdeen - Leith
1815-18: London - Le Havre
1819-26: London - Leith
1826-31: Leith coaster
1832-38: Leith - Dundee
1839-40: Aberdeen - Glasgow

04/08/1852:
Cadiz, 24th July. The EDINBURGH PACKET. Meikbreid, from Newcastle to this port, was driven on shore at Cubo Cander, between Rota and Chipiona, during the night, and is full of water; crew saved. It has since been blowing fresh at N.W. with a heavy sea & it is feared the vessel will become a total wreck
(Lloyd's List)
It seems odd that a Schooner that had spent most of its life in Scottish waters should be wrecked in Spain but there is no EDINBURGH PACKET in Lloyd's 1852, and its last entry on the Post Office Aberdeen Directory was also 1852 (p. 55).

New rig in 1836 (see Aberdeen Register of Shipping, No. 25)
Notes: Contract cost £1,034, or £12 per ton (Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
See ABDMS003001.13 for details of this vessel's voyages under the ownership of John Cook (1849).