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PRINCE OF WATERLOO

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

Date1815

Object NameSHIP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 93 1/3' x breadth 27 3/12' x depth 17 1/6'
gross tonnage: 287 ton

Object numberABDSHIP000899

Keywords

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 14

Fate: Grounded at St. Mawes, 9 January 1832, possibly broken up thereafter.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck, 3 masts, ship rigged, standing bowsprit, carvel built, square stern, no galleries, male bust figurehead.

Owners:
1818: Saunders (Lloyd's) (Saunders & Mellis, merchants, Aberdeen., in the Builder's list)
1819-24: J. Knowles
1824-27: Saunders
1827: registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Smith, advocate, 13 shares; John Whyte, merchant, 3 shares; Alexander Stewart, merchant, 3 shares.
Other shareholders;
John Lumsden, 4 shares; William Pirie, 3 shares; Livingston Booth, 4 shares; James Knowles, 3 shares; James Harper, 8 shares; all merchants; Alexander Jamieson, shipmaster, 9 shares; James Blaikie, advocate, 3 shares; William McCombie, merchant, 2 shares; Helen Rhind or Simpson, widow of the late Andrew Simpson of Collyhill, 6 shares; Ann Cragie or Robertson, relict of the deceased Peter Robertson, merchant and Benjamin Williamson, surgeon in Aberdeen, trustees of the said Peter Robertson, 3 shares; all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1818-19: Master Jameson
1819-24: Master J. Gray
1824-31: Master Andrew Deary
1832: Master Riley

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1818-19: London - Demerara
1820: London - Halifax
1821-22: London - Trieste
1823: London
1824: Belfast - Quebec
1825: London - Malta.
1826-27: London - Trieste
1829-32: London - Honduras

General History:
10/07/1816:
Ship PRINCE OF WATERLOO, Jamieson, passed Gravesend 30 June for Virginia.
(Aberdeen Journal)

14/06/1820:
For sale, one eigth of ship PRINCE OF WATERLOO, information from Alexander Cheyne, Marischal Street, Trustee on Sequestered Estate of Saunders & Mellis, Merchants in Aberdeen.
(Aberdeen Journal)

08/06/1825:
To be sold by public roup in Dempster's Hotel 15 June following shares in shipping belonging to late Mr. Simpson of Collyhill [...] one tenth of ship PRINCE OF WATERLOO.
(Aberdeen Journal)

27/06/1825:
Ship PRINCE OF WATERLOO was to sail from Sierra Leone 9 May for England with cargo of teak and cam wood.
(Morning Chronicle)

04/03/1829:
For sale, following belonging to Trust Estate of Late Thomas McCombie Esq... one fortieth of ship PRINCE OF WATERLOO [Ad repeated 26/05/1830].
(Aberdeen Journal)

11/01/1832:
The PRINCE OF WATERLOO, Riley, from Newport to London, in working out of St. Mawes, grounded on St. Mawes bank, and remained the tide.
(London Packet and New Lloyd's Evening Post)

Note: Cost at construction £4223, or £14 14s. per ton. (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)