Mary

Official Number
none

The Mary was a brigantine built at Ulverston in 1815. She was lost off the Irish coast on the 29th September 1828.

The Lancaster Gazette, Saturday, 11th October 1828;

" The brig Mary (of Ulverston), Captain Mattix, bound from Dundalk to Southampton, with a cargo of grain, sunk off Lambay, on the 29th ult. Three of the crew, Clark and Bramwell, of Ulverston, and a Welshman, betook themselves to the rigging, and went down with the vessel. Captain Mattix and three seamen, of the names Close, Smethers and Muncaster, jumped into the sea, and supported themselves for a considerable time by clinging to spars, &c. until they were picked up by a fishing boat., in an almost lifeless state, and taken to Howth. - Smethers died soon after he was landed. Captain Mattix has since arrived at Ulverston, and speaks in the highest terms of the great humanity which was shewn towards them after they were taken on shore. Not a vestige of anything was saved by the survivors but the clothes they had on."

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Mary
1815
103
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Lancaster Shipping Register - built Ulverston 1815, brigantine, 103 tons, "lost on a voyage from Newry to Southampton, October 1828, with a cargo of grain.".
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Underwriters' Green Book) 1828: Mary, brig, 103 tons, built at Ulverston, 13 years old, owned by Butcher & Co., master Capt.T.Mattie (over-printed T.Maddox), voyage Greenock-Cork.