COMMODORE

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

Date1837

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 76 2/10' x breadth 19 6/10' x depth 12 9/10'
gross tonnage 149 2792/3500 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000965

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 79

Fate: wrecked in the Baltic, September 1857

Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 & a top sail mast, standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries, male bust figure head

Owners:
30/03/1837: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
James Murray, advocate, William Young, shipmaster and George Rennie, shipmaster.
Other owners included Sir Arthur Farquhar, Invey/Invery, County of Kincardine, later Rear Admiral, KCB.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1837-44: Master William Young
1845: Master J. Hutcheson
1846-57: Master W. Clark

Voyages (Lloyd's):
1840-46: Aberdeen - Riga
1847-56: Aberdeen - the Baltic
1857: Belfast - the Baltic

General History:
08/10/1857:
Riga September 30 - The COMMODORE (brig), Clark, from Reval to the East coast of Scotland, with flax, on shore on Domesnaess, is full of water, and a wreck. Her cargo is quite spoiled, but the authorities are getting on shore what they can of it, which will sold by auction.
(Edinburgh Evening Courant)

Notes: Cost at construction £1570
1850, Partially Restored; 1857, Some Repairs