Augusta

Official Number 17224

The Augusta was a schooner built at the Petty & Postlethwaite shipyard at Ulverston, launched on Thursday, 16th July 1846. Her first owner was Henry Schneider, owner of mines and later ironworks at Barrow.

Launch report from the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, Tuesday, 21st July 1846, page 3:

"  On Thursday last a handsome and substantial new schooner of about 100 tons register was launched from the building yard of Messrs.Petty and Postlethwaite, Ulverston. She went off the stocks in good style, in the presence of a numerous concourse of spectators, and was christened the Augusta by James Davies, Esq., of Tytup Hall, of the firm of Schneider and Co., for whom she was built, and will be employed in the ore and iron trade."

Crew lists (see Source 2) for the Augusta show that she was commanded by Capt. George Porter from 1849 to 1853, and that the vessel existed in the coasting trade in the Irish Sea. A typical example of her voyages, in 1853,  is given below :

The Augusta was "totally wrecked" on the 26th October 1859 (Source 1).
 

Name	Year Built	Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Augusta	1846	90 2576/3500				2

Sources :

1. Lancaster Shipping Register 1837-55 at Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
2. Crew Lists from BT 98/1923, BT 98/2981, BT 98/3400, research by Mr.Len Barnett, genealogical researcher.
3. Lloyd’s Register of Shipping 1852-3 gives tonnage as 101 tons, port of registration as Ulverston and owner as Schneider.