Barbadoes Packet

Official Number
none

The Barbadoes Packet was a brigantine built by John Brockbank at Lancaster. She was launched on the 26th March 1803 and was first registered at Lancaster on the 31st March 1803. Her first master, and part-owner, was Capt.William Woodhouse. Source 3 states that she cost £2097 to build (£10 14s per ton). The Barbadoes Packet was sold to Liverpool owners in March 1804.

Lloyd's List, 11th January 1805, page 1;

" Barbadoes Packet, Smith, from Africa, is arrived at Demerara, after beating off two privateers near that colony."

The Caledonian Mercury, 4th October 1806 (citing from Lloyd's Marine List, 30th Sept.);

" Barbadoes Packet, Bird, from Berbice, is onshore near Holyhead; cargo landing."

The Barbadoes Packet was not listed in Lloyd's Register of Shipping after 1812.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Barbadoes Packet
1803
196
 
 
 
2
 
Square 
Billett 

Sources :

  1. Lancaster Shipping Register 1786-1824 (at Lancashire Record Office, Preston, ref.SS 5/1) - vessel described as a brigantine. Launch date given in Lancaster Gazette, 11th February 1865.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Shipowners' Red Book) 1805 – Barbadoes Packet, 196 ton brig, 14 x 6-pounder guns, built Lancaster 1802, owned Cock & Co., master Capt.G.Smith, voyage Lancaster – Barbadoes.
  3. "Merchant Sailing Ships 1775-1815" by David R.MacGregor, ISBN 0 85242 663 1.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Shipowners' Red Book) 1812 – Barbadoes Packet, 196 ton brig, built Lancaster 1802, owned Hay & Co., master Capt.Bird, voyage Liverpool-Africa.