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Ships Built at Aberaeron
This list is based mainly on the Shipping Register, 1824-1900, at H.M. Customs and Excise Office, Aberystwyth, and also on Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, 1882. A small number were obtained from other sources. The fifth column gives the name of the builder.
Definitions of types of ships/boats:
- Sloop - A small one-masted fore-and-aft rigged vessel with mainsail and jib.
- Smack - A single-masted sailing boat for coasting or fishing.
- Schooner - A fore-and-aft rigged ship with two or more masts, the foremost being smaller than the other masts.
- Brigantine - A two-masted sailing ship with a square-rigged foremast and a fore-and-aft rigged mainmast.
- Brig - A two-masted square-rigged ship, with an additional lower fore-and-aft sail on the gaff and a boom to the mainmast.
- Barquentine - A sailing ship with the foremast square-rigged and the remaining [usually two] masts fore-and-aft rigged.
- Ketch - A two-masted fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with with a mizzen-mast stepped forward of the rudder and smaller than its foremast
Aberaeron Shipping Register, 1824-1900 |
| Year |
Name of Vessel |
Vessel Type |
Tonnage of Vessel |
Made by |
| 1793 |
Active |
Sloop |
30 tons |
- |
| 1805 |
Resolution |
Sloop |
41 tons |
- |
| 1808 |
Diligence |
Sloop |
30 tons |
- |
| 1825 |
Economy |
Schooner |
64 tons |
- |
| |
Favorite |
Sloop |
40 tons |
- |
| 1827 |
Albion |
Sloop |
46 tons |
- |
| 1829 |
Hannah |
Sloop |
16 tons |
- |
| 1830 |
Adventure |
Sloop |
28 tons |
- |
| |
Victoria |
- |
- |
- |
| 1831 |
Ospray |
Sloop |
49 tons |
- |
| 1834 |
Prudence |
Schooner |
86 tons |
- |
| 1835 |
President |
Schooner |
75 tons |
- |
| 1838 |
Friends |
Smack |
39 tons |
- |
| |
Fair Hope |
Sloop |
37 tons |
John Harries |
| 1840 |
Orion |
Smack |
30 tons |
John Harries |
| 1841 |
Ontario |
Schooner |
104 tons |
- |
| |
Catherine and Jane |
Schooner |
71 tons |
- |
| 1842 |
Demetian Lass |
- |
- |
- |
| 1843 |
Andes |
Smack |
35 tons |
John Harries |
| 1844 |
John and Henry |
Schooner |
- |
John Harries |
| 1845 |
Eleanor |
- |
- |
- |
| 1846 |
Adroit |
Schooner |
74 tons |
Evan Jones |
| |
Adroit |
Smack |
31 tons |
Harries |
| |
Ganges |
Schooner |
67 tons |
- |
| 1847 |
Camden |
Schooner |
69 tons |
J. and Henry Harries |
| |
Lima |
Schooner |
84 tons |
E. Jones |
| 1848 |
Aeron Vale |
- |
129 tons |
J. and H. Harries |
| |
Mantura |
Schooner |
79 tons |
E. Jones |
| |
Pandora |
Schooner |
79 tons |
J. and H. Harries |
| 1849 |
Mountain Lass |
Brigantine |
112 tons |
J. and H. Harries |
| |
Aeron Maid |
Schooner |
76 tons |
E. Harries |
| |
Henry and Dora |
Brigantine |
119 tons |
J. and H. Harries |
| |
Lively Lass |
Schooner |
78 tons |
E. Harries |
| |
Letitia |
Schooner |
61 tons |
J. and H. Harries |
| |
Puella |
Schooner |
99 tons |
J. and H. Harries |
| 1850 |
Feronia |
- |
141 tons |
E. Jones |
| 1851 |
Aeronian |
Schooner |
43 tons |
- |
| |
Aeron Queen |
Schooner |
96 tons |
E. Jones |
| 1852 |
Ellen |
Smack |
25 tons |
Owen Jones |
| |
Gwalia |
Schooner |
118 tons |
E. Jones |
| |
Glyn Aeron |
Schooner |
65 tons |
J. Harries II |
| |
Beryl |
- |
- |
- |
| 1855 |
Gambia |
Schooner |
97 tons |
E. Jones |
| |
Williama Mary |
Brig |
239 tons |
J. Harries |
| 1856 |
Viscata |
Schooner |
77 tons |
- |
| |
Pyrenee |
Schooner |
38 tons |
- |
| |
Gowerian |
Schooner |
99 tons |
E. Jones |
| |
Aeron Belle |
Schooner |
47 tons |
D. Jones |
| 1857 |
Urania |
Schooner |
107 tons |
E. Jones |
| |
Edward John |
Schooner |
137 tons |
J. Harries |
| |
Magdalen Esther |
Schooner |
104 tons |
D. Jones |
| 1858 |
Arica |
Schooner |
111 tons |
J. Harries |
| |
Condor |
Schooner |
114 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Xanthippe |
Brig |
225 tons |
E. Jones |
| |
All Right |
Smack |
39 tons |
J. Harries |
| 1859 |
Maria Anna |
Brigantine |
143 tons |
J. Harries |
| |
Farmers Lass |
Smack |
28 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Edward John |
Schooner |
137 tons |
- |
| |
Leander |
Schooner |
72 tons |
J. Harries |
| 1860 |
John Pierce |
Schooner |
97 tons |
E. Jones |
| 1861 |
Killia Lass |
Brig |
116 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Jane |
Smack |
30 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Lima |
Brig |
215 tons |
J. Harries |
| 1862 |
Dewi Lass |
Schooner |
93 tons |
E. Jones |
| |
Alicia |
Schooner |
96 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Catherine Anna |
Barquentine |
149 tons |
- |
| |
Martha Jane |
Smack |
29 tons |
J. Harries |
| 1864 |
Albatross |
Smack |
18 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Oronsa |
Brigantine |
158 tons |
J. Harries |
| |
Madona |
Brigantine |
163 tons |
D. Jones |
| 1866 |
Star of Wales |
Brig |
184 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Pleiades |
Schooner |
149 tons |
D. Jones |
| 1868 |
Jane |
Smack |
29 tons |
D. Jones |
| 1871 |
Eliza |
Smack |
15 tons |
- |
| 1883 |
Cadwgan |
Ketch |
120 tons |
D. Jones |
| |
Henry and Dora |
Brigantine |
119 tons |
J. and H. Harries |
Ships possibly built at Aberaeron: |
| Year |
Name of Vessel |
Vessel Type |
Tonnage of Vessel |
Made by |
| 1845 |
Aeron Lass |
Schooner |
80 tons |
(built in Wales) |
| 1863 |
Gwladys |
Brigantine |
157 tons |
(Wales: Harries) |
N.B. This is a preliminary list; a great deal of patient research is necessary for a definitive list of Aberaeron-built ships.
