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Name: HARBOTTLE CASTLE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1840
Completed: 1840
Builder: A & R Hopper
Yard: North Shore, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 115tonsb, 69.1 x 19.2 x 10.6ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brig; (later rigged as a Schooner)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 22218
History:
09/09/1840 William Robson, Newcastle
13/03/1848 Alexander Grieg Bower & Robert Donald, Aberdeen
20/03/1848 Registered at Aberdeen
by 1865 John McLauchlan, Aberdeen
20/12/1870 Sank
Comments: 20/12/1870: Foundered in a gale whilst entering Aberdeen harbour
On a voyage from the Tyne to Aberdeen with a cargo of coal


Morning Post, Thursday, 22/12/1870