Paragon

Official Number none

The Paragon was a brig built at Lancaster in 1824. At the time of her loss in 1838 she was owned by Smith & Co. and was registered at Maryport.

The Paragon was wrecked in a severe snow-storm at Ballynesker on the coast of Wexford on Friday morning, 16th February 1838. She was bound from Liverpool for Pernambuco. Six of the crew were lost, the rest saved by a local boat.

Another brig named Paragon was registered at Maryport from 1829.
 

Name	Year Built	Net Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Paragon	1824	257				2

Sources :

1. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1825 (Shipowners' Red Book): brig, owned by Fell, master Simpson, voyage Liverpool-Jamaica.
2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1837-8: brig, registered at Maryport, owned by Smith & Co., master J.Watt, voyage Liverpool-St.Thomas.
3. Wreck reported in the Belfast News-Letter, Friday, 23rd February 1838.
   
4. "Shipwreck Index of Ireland" by Richard and Bridget Larn (pub. Lloyd's Register-Fairplay, 2002), ISBN 1 900839 03 02 - citing from Lloyds List, and giving the date of wreck as 20th February 1838.