Aberaeron:The Community and Seafaring 1800 - 1900

By David Lewis Jones ; Ceredigion,Vol VI/2 1969

This informative article contains many names of people and ships, I have indexed them below

**My copy of this book was deposited with Glamorgan FHS in April 2022 (Gareth Hicks)

Click  here for the position with lookups

Names have also been indexed from separate tables in the article under the following headings;

• Aberaeron ships at Aberystwyth in 1845
• Aberaeron Steam Navigation Company Ltd
• The Aberayron Steam Packet Company
• Ships built at Aberaeron

Aberaeron owned ships using Aberystwyth in 1845

• Aeron
• Bee
• Faithful Sisters
• Faithful Sisters
• Hannah
• Hannah
• Lively
• Lively
• Nautilus
• Nautilus
• Nautilus
• Turtle Dove

Aberaeron Steam Navigation Company Ltd

Founded in 1863 with 400 shares, this is an index of members names at 22 Oct 1864.

There is more information in the article, eg. address, occupation, shares held - but not all for every member.

The Aberayron Steam Packet Company[ Registered in 1894]

Index of members 18 August 1894, there is more information in the article, eg. address, occupation, shares held

Ships built at Aberaeron

Mainly based on Shipping Registers, 1824-1900 at H M Customs and Excise Office, Aberystwyth, and also on Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, 1882.

Definitions of types of ships/boats from the Concise Oxford Dictionary;

• 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.

The author describes the list that this index is based on as a preliminary one; saying "a great deal of patient research is necessary before we can obtain a definitive list of Aberaeron-built ships". Indexed in alphabetical order of ship's name.

*The Aeron Lass was in fact built in Aberarth in 1845 -  Ships number 9830. Port of Registration - Aberystwyth. Tonnage - 66 tons [Contributed by David Owen 12/2017]

INDEX

The article contains the following photographs;

• Photograph of Aberaeron Harbour in 1832, facing p 216
• Photograph of Aberaeron Harbour on the 1890s, facing p 217
• Photograph of Ship-building at Aberaeron in 1850s. facing p 232
• Photograph of Pwllcam towards end of C19, facing p 233

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• Ships

People

Places

Ships