ABERDEEN BUILT SHIPS


Name
ADVENTURE
Construction
WOOD, BEECH
Type
SLOOP
Date
1828
Description
Date of Build/Launch: May 1828

1 deck, 1 mast, smack rigged, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead.

Subscribing Owners:
George Levie, 32 shares; Walter Hood, 32 shares; both shipbuilders in Aberdeen.

George Levie Master in 1828

(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

1830-32: Master W. Laing; Owner J. Simpson; Voyage Leith Coasting
1839: No trace in Lloyd's Register

(Source: Lloyd's Register of Shipping)

ADVENTURE, left Sunderland for Portsoy 18-01-1835 not heard of since.

(Source: 'Shipwreck Index of the British Isles' by Richard & Bridget Larn)
Shipbuilder
GEORGE LEVIE
Dimensions
length 42' x breadth 14.6' x depth 8'
gross tonnage 35 tons

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