Adolph Wilhelm

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The Adolph Wilhelm, a wooden hulled sail brig, 180 tons burthen, Captain Paeplow (also spelled Peplow) registered in Stralsund, Germany. While in passage from Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) to either Liverpool, England, or Isle of Man, United Kingdom (the available records are in dispute), with a cargo of timber, was wrecked in conditions of fog at Slogar, Fair Isle on August 22nd 1835.

The Adolph Wilhelm was one of two European wooden sail brigs bound for Liverpool, England that wrecked on Fair Isle on August 22nd 1835, the other being the Anna Carolina.

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