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

Date1817

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 54' x breadth 17 1/6' x depth 9'
gross tonnage: 64 ton

Object numberABDSHIP000904

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 19

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1836 (R170).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck, 1 mast, sloop rigged, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead, 1 chain, 1 hemp rope, part fir ceiling.

Owners:
1823: Adam & Co. (Lloyd's underwriters)
23/12/1825: Re-registered at Aberdeen as "cert accidently lost and now authorised to be reissued by the Honorable Board" (Aberdeen Register of Shipping 1825, No. 153)
Owner: Alec Farquharson, ships chandler, 64/64
1829: Subscribing owner; Alexander Fraser, 64 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 153, 1825)
[Lloyd's underwriters has Johnston & Co as owner from 1824 until 1832, this seems irreconcilable with the Aberdeen Register. Lloyds then has A. Fraser as owner in 1833. The Aberdeen Register is probably the more accurate]

Masters:
1823-32: Master Downie
1825: Master Thomas Gordon (Aberdeen Register, does not appear in Lloyd's)
1832-33: Master W. Mair
1834-36: Master J. Martin

Voyages:
1823-33: London coaster