Berwick Built Ships - 1751 - 1799

Vessel Year Type Tons Builder Owner/Trading Route

BARRINGTON & WATSON
(ELIZABETH)

1756/57

Sloop

80

 

T. Davidson – London /Petersburg

FRIENDS INCREASE

1751

Brig

135

 

c. 1880 – from Sunderland

JOHN

1760

Sloop

50

 

London/Alderney

IDA AND ANN

1761

Brig

120

 

John Simpson – London/Leghorn

NANCY

1763

Ship

70

 

T. Brinn – Rotterdam/London

FRANCES AND SALLY

1764

Snow

146

 

C. Wells – Memel/London

LIVELY

1764

Ship

80

 

W. Gillis

CONCORD

1764

Brig

147

 

Newcastle/London

PROVIDENCE

1767

Sloop

50

 

Kirkwood – Dublin/coaster

NANCY

1768

Brig

80

 

John Wilson

JAMES AND MARY

1768

Schooner

98

 

Pattison – Newcastle/Gothenburg

BETSY

1768

Brig

160

 

London/Derry

ANN

1774

Brig

100

 

Hamburg/London

PRINCE OF WALES

1779

Ship

110

 

J. Burt

TWEED

1781

Brigantine

130

 

London/Virginia

GEORGE & MARGARET

1784

Brig

180

 

J. Strong

JENNY

1784

Brig

140

 

Greenock/Virginia

SEVEN BROTHERS

1786

Brig

167

 

 

GOTTENBERG

1786

 

100

 

 

EXPERIMENT

1787

Brig

131

 

 

PRINCES ROYAL

1788

Brigantine

101

 

To Newcastle

LIVELY

1788

Brig

105

 

London/coaster

ARGO

1789

Sloop

73

Wm. Bruce

To Newcastle

TWO SISTERS

1790

Brig

102

 

J. Atty – Lo Petersburg

PHOENIX

1791

Snow

136

Wm. Bruce

To Newcastle

PHILADELPHIA

1791

Brigantine

80

 

 

ROXBURGH PACKET

1791

Schooner

106

 

Forster & Co. – London/coaster

NORTHUMBERLAND

1792

SMACK

62

   

TWEED PACKET

1792

Sloop

114

 

Martin – London/Ostend

TIGER

1792

Sloop

97

 

T. Lockyer – Tenerife/Plymouth

BRITANNIA PACKET

1795

Smack

126

 

Foster & Co. – London/coaster

HAZARD

1793

Schooner

72

 

Wilson and Co. Leith/Inverness

SISTERS

1792

Brig

102

 

T. Backas – London/Coaster

MARY

1793

Brigantine

118

Gowan

To Newcastle

WILLIAM

1793

Sloop

73

Wm. Bruce

To Blyth

NAUTILUS

1793

Sloop

74

Wm. Bruce

To Newcastle

COLDSTREAM PACKET

1794

Sloop

87

 

Strange – Liverpool/Limerick

BERWICKSHIRE PACKET

1794

Sloop

92

 

T. Hall – London/Leith

BERWICK MERCHANT

1795

Smack

116

Gowan

W. Hutchinson – North Shields

CENTURION

1795

Brig

136

 

Captain and Co. –Leith/ Hull

GLASGOW PACKET

1795

Smack

106

 

Union Shipping Co. Leith/London

ST JUNEN

1795

Brig

136

 

T. Leyt – Ber/Coaster

CERES

1796

Brig

81

 

Dixon – Lynn/Coaster

AGENORIA

1796

Ship

151

 

Friend & Co. London/Leghorn

COMMERCIAL PACKET

1796

Smack

114

 

Richardson – Leith/London

BRITANNIA PACKET

1797

Smack

125

Gowan

Old Shipping Co. – London/Berwick

ISABELLA

1797

Brig

251

 

To North Shields

ANN & ISABELLA

1797

Snow

221

 

To North Shields

HIBERNIA

1797

Ship

218

 

McEchrn – Greenock/Bayrs

LIZARD

1797

Smack

71

 

Inverness & Co. – Leith/Inverness

AGENORIA

1797

Sloop

54

 

Salters and Co. – Yarmouth/coaster

LEITH PACKET

1797

Smack

116

 

Union Shipping Co – Leith/London

ZEPHYR

1797

Schooner

120

 

Brander – London/Elsinore

RAVEN

1798

Sloop

77

 

T. Russel – Bristol/Dublin

FRIENDSHIP

1798

Sloop

61

 

P. Spink – Leith/London

WILLIAM AND THOMAS

1798

Sloop

75

 

H. Massey – Waterford/Rye

BERWICK PACKET

1798

Smack

106

 

W. Fry – Waterford/Portsmouth

HOPE

1798

Schooner

108

 

Captain – London/Riga

N’CASTLE & BERWICK PACKET

1798

Sloop

63

 

S. Darling – London/Coaster

THREE BROTHERS

1798

Sloop

53

 

Captain & Co. – Leith/Coaster

CALEDONIA PACKET

1799

Smack

130

Gowan

Old Shipping Co. – Leith/London

LERWICK PACKET

1799

Smack

84

Gowan

Linklater – Leith/Lerwick

LONDON PACKET

1799

Sloop

85

 

Catto & Co. – Leith/Aberdeen

FAME

1799

Schooner

132

 

Toms – London/Gibraltar

Source:  Northumberland Records Office, Sources for the maritime history of Northumberland
              List complied by the late Denis Nicholson

 

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