Buccleuch
 Official Number
45681

The Buccleuch was a brig, felted and yellow metalled, and built at Berwick by AB Gowan & Son in June 1863. She was owned from new by James Fisher & Sons of Barrow-in-Furness.

A note pinned to the Lancaster Shipping Register says;

" This is to certify that on arrival of the Buccleuch at this port the master reported that the Register of the said vessel had been totally destroyed by rats during the voyage from the United States to this port. I have enquired into this matter and as far as I can ascertain such I believe to have been the case.

Signed and stamped, British Consulate, Rio de Janeiro, November 14th 1867 "

In November 1877 the master is named as Capt. Ball in the Barrow Times shipping intelligence columns. In January 1879 the same newspaper named the master as Capt. Benson and reported that she was at Catania to proceed to Carthagena (Spain) to load for Barrow or Workington. The Buccleuch was driven ashore at Almeria in Spain on the 22nd February 1879.She was on passage from Carthagena to Workington with iron ore. The crew of seven were saved.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Buccleuch
 1863
208 
 
 
 
 2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
  2. Berwick Shipyard - Build List 1841-1878 - indicates that the Buccleuch was the 11th of 26 vessels built by Gowan for James Fisher.
  3. Lancaster Shipping Register at Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
  4. The Barrow Times at the Newspaper Library, Colindale, London.
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