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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
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| SYLVANUS |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1838 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Wood Sailing Vessel Schooner |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| David & Thomas Gray, Kincardine |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / / 78 burthen |
56.2' |
17.0' |
10.4' |
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| Engine builder |
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| Engine detail |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| David & Thomas Gray, James Crawford all of Kincardine, Alexander Patterson of Bonnybridge and George Patterson of Glasgow. |
Alloa |
03/11/1838 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
21/08/1848 James Crawford, Alexander Patterson & George Patterson.
23/03/1854 Registered at Inverness. |
| Vessel history |
| 22/12/1859 Inverness Courier reported - On the morning of 4th inst. when with 8 miles of Peterhead, was struck by heavy sea which carried away bulwarks, stancheons, mainsail etc. She drifted until 07/12/1859 when the schooner "EBENEZER" a Danish vessel took the captain and crew off the wreck. Captain Baird says she must have gone down immediately after they had left her. |
| Remarks |
03/11/1838 John Simpson was master.
05/03/1841 John Gibson appointed master at Alloa.
01/04/1842 George Scotland appointed master at Grangemouth.
19/08/1851 Robert Simpson appointed master at Grangemouth.
22/02/1854 John Gibson appointed master at Grangemouth. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1859 |
Wrecked 07/12/1859 |
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