Commerce

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The Commerce was a 73 ton sloop built at Ulverston in 1815. On the 23rd March 1827 she caught fire whilst lying at Rampside. She was under the command of Capt.Oliver Haddock and was bound from Ulverston to Liverpool with a cargo of 200 barrels of gunpowder. The vessel was destroyed by a fearful explosion that reportedly was heard in Lancaster, Garstang and Preston.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Commerce	1815	73				1

Sources :

1. Wreck reported by William Fisher in  "The Diary of William Fisher of Barrow, 1811 to 1859", ed. William Rollinson & Brett Harrison, University of Lancaster (1986) ISBN 0-901-272-191.
2. Wreck info also in "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X - gives the location as Piel Harbour.