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Atlas 1817-1877

Aberdeen: Official No. 2427: Code Letters HPCS: one deck with beams; square rigged; wood brig; 193g; 84.4 x 23.4 x 12.3; repairs to damage 1822; lengthened 1833; some repairs 1847; large repairs 1848; repairs to damage 1839 & 1850; 25 June 1874 altered to a brigantine.

Owners: 1818 Gibbon & Co, Aberdeen; 1823 C Walton; 1831 Brown & Co; 1834 R Johnson, Berwick; 1835 J & G Carr, Berwick; 1841 T & W Smith (Blyth) Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1856 James Colin Brewis & John March, Hartlepool; December 1858 Robert Brewis, Hartlepool; June 1874 Robert Brewis mortgaged to  John Wilcher, Hartlepool; May 1876 discharge of mortgage to John Wilcher, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1818-19 J Struthers; 1819-22 Harrison; 1823-26 J Walton; 1827-30 J Flett; 1830 Dixon; 1831 H Dinon; 1834-38 J Trotter; 1839-41 T Crow; 1841-50 T Smith; 1850-56 George Ferrow (b. 1820 County Durham); 1858 Clausten; 1865-68 J Wilcher.

Voyages: 1818-19 Leith for Sunderland; 1820 London for Rio de Janeiro; 1821 Liverpool for Jamaica; 1824 Liverpool for Lima; 1830 London for Newfoundland

Atlas was broken up in May 1877.

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