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Official Number
1852 |
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Official Number
1852 |
From the Carlisle Patriot newspaper, Friday, 22nd November, 1844 :
A handsome and substantially-built vessel named the Delight was on Monday week launched from the building-yard of Messrs.G.S.Petty, and Co., Ulverston, whch is intended, we understand, for the trade between that port and Liverpool.The Delight was a 54 ton sloop built by Petty & Postlethwaite at Ulverston in November 1844. She was registered at Lancaster and her owners included her builders and Richard Roper of Ulverston. From crew lists (see Source 2) her voyages in 1852 were between Ulverston and Liverpool and her crew were named as follows :
Crew during the year 1852:
Edward Kendall, age 35, born Ulverston, ticket no. 712038, MasterThe sloop Delight of Ulverston was lost on Friday, 6th October 1858. She had left the Ulverston Canal with a cargo of iron ore and empties, under the command of Capt.Todd Greaves and bound for Birkenhead. Her crew was William Penny, mate, and two seamen named James Parker and John Briggs. Also aboard as passengers were Mr.A.Lucas of Ulverston and a sailor named Woodhouse. The sloop was late getting out of the canal, in part due to the lock gates being in a poor state of repair, and on the ebb tide she grounded on a sandbank at Chapel Island. The vessel was in an exposed position in a westerly gale, with heavy rain. Overnight the vessel developed a leak and began to fill, and then capsized. The crew took to the rigging, the mate and Woodhouse eventually managing to struggle into the small boat - they improvised a sail from a coat and managed to make safety at Cark Beck at 1 am on Saturday. In the morning Parker and Briggs were rescued from the rigging, much exhausted. They were described in a newspaper report as old men who had been employed at the Petty & Postlethwaite shipyard for many years.
(joined this vessel 13th November 1844 - died of convulsions at Liverpool 22nd December 1852)
James Pirnie, age 24, born Ulverston, ticket no. not stated, Master
(joined this vessel 30th December 1852, previous vessel Sisters of Duddon)
Thomas Gaulter, age 42, born Lytham, ticket no. 63703, Mate
(joined this vessel 15th May 1845, previous vessel Trafalgar of Fleetwood)
John Briggs, age 50, born Kirkby Ireleth, ticket no. 40753, Seaman
(joined this vessel 13th November 1844)
James Parker, age 68, born Lancaster, ticket no. 63702, Seaman
(joined this vessel 9th December 1850, previous vessel Ant of Ulverston - discharged at Ulverston 12th November 1852)
The master's body was found in a fishing net. He was the fiancé
of a daughter of Mr.Lucas, a hatter from Ulverston, who also failed to
survive the wreck.
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