Bardsea

Official Number 12663

The Bardsea was a schooner built at Ulverston in 1798. She was rebuilt at Maryport in 1821 and at Whitehaven in 1835. The vessel was registered at Whitehaven in 1840 and at Dumfries from 1854. At Whitehaven in 1840 the Bardsea was described as a galliot, owned by Joseph Tyson.

The Bardsea was lost on voyage from Peel to Water of Urr in 1866 (source 1). She foundered outside Whitehaven harbour in a storm on the 7th December 1866 with the loss of all hands (3 crew). She was carrying guano from Liverpool to Dalbeattie (see Source 3).
 

Name	Year Built	Net Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Bardsea	1798	48.43	52.1	14.4	7.5	2	None	Round

Sources :

1. Dumfries Shipping Register
2. A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven.
3. "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X.