Manx Queen

Official Number
78218

The Manx Queen was an iron barque built to special survey by D.Noble & Co. at Barrow. She was launched in October 1878 and was bought by an owner in the Isle of Man, R.G Karran of Castletown.

On the 30th March 1880 the Manx Queen, Capt.R.G.Karran, arrived at Sydney from Mauritius with a cargo of sugar. She subsequently went to Newcastle to load coal for Oamaru, then arrrived at London on the 22nd September. In 1882 the vessel visited Port Chalmers, New Zealand, returning to Glasgow. In 1885 Capt.Karran returned to Sydney in a much larger iron ship, the Manx King, and the Manx Queen was sold some years later.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, 21st August 1889, page 8;

" SHIPPING SALES - The iron barque Manx Queen, 303 tons register, carrying 445 tons deadweight on 11½ft, owned by Messrs.Karran & Co., Castletown, has been sold to Liverpool owners at £11 per ton. She was built at Barrow in 1878, and classed 100 Al at Lloyd's."

The Manx Queen was abandoned at sea in February 1902, without loss of life.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Manx Queen
1878
317
 150.7
 25.4
11.6 
3
 
 
100 years A1, Special Survey

Sources :

  1. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1878-9: Manx Queen, iron barque, 317 grt, 303 nrt, built by Noble at Barrow in October 1878, official number 78218, owned and commanded by R.G.Karran, registered at Castletown, Isle of Man.
  2. Reports from Australian newspapers at the National Library of Australia website.
  3. Sue Bond tells me that there is a painting of the "Manx Queen, built by D.Noble of Barrow, Master T.W.Karran" at the Nautical Museum (now known as "The Peggy Story"), Castletown, Isle of Man.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1889-90: Manx Queen, iron barque, 305 grt, 291 nrt, built by D.Noble & Co. at Barrow in October 1878, official number 78218, signal letters WVPJ, owned by W.C.Jarvis & Sons, registered at Liverpool, and commanded by Capt.J.R.Kee.
  5. Mercantile Navy List 1896: Manx Queen, iron barque, 291 tons, built at Barrow-in-Furness in 1878, official number 78218, signal letters WVPJ, owned by British & Mexican Shipping Company, 29 Hanover Street, Liverpool (William Collings Jarvis, same address), vessel registered at Liverpool.
  6. Wreck reported in "A History of Local Sailing Ships", by H.Peck, in "Proceedings of the Barrow Naturalists Field Club" Vol.7 (1951).
  7. Wreck listed in the Times, 21st February, 1902, page 13.