Name: | MARS |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 1808 |
Completed: | 07/1808 |
Builder: | Richard Bulmer & Co |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 325tonsb, 97.1 x 28.1 x ?ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Snow |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1837: 33004) |
History: | |
15/07/1808 | William Harle, Robert Gothard & Taylor Winship, Newcastle and |
Henry Wright & James Craster, South Shields | |
12/12/1816 | William Harle & Taylor Winship, Newcastle and James Craster, South Shields |
17/02/1818 | Robert & Francis Jefferson, John Eden, South Shields and William Linskill, |
John Walker Jnr, William Chapman, James Bovine & William Belleny, North Shields | |
17/02/1826 | Robert & Francis Jefferson, John Eden and Robert Holmes, South Shields and |
Robert Belleny, Durham | |
by 1837 | George Crawford and David & James Binnie, Montrose |
by 1837 | Registered at Montrose |
1856 | Lost |
Comments: | Capacity of 22 x keels of coal or 430 x loads of timber |
08/1836: Aground on Dunscanby Head but towed off by two steamers from Shields | |
On a voyage from Dalhousie, New Brunswick to UK East Coast | |
17/09/1836: Tow ropes cast off near Kinnairds Head due to a gale | |
18/09/1836: Taken in tow by some Fraserburgh pilots | |
Wrecked at the entrance to Fraserburgh harbour | |
Wreck subsequently purchased by Montrose merchants Crawford & Binnie | |
24/09/1856: Certficate of loss received at Registry |