Stormy Petrel

Official Number 56939

The Stormy Petrel was an iron barque built by the Lune Shipbuilding Company in 1867, a year after the Underley. She was launched on the morning of Friday, 8th March 1867, a day later than anticipated due to the vessel having sunk into the marshy ground on which she had been built. Initially she was named the Lady of the Lune, and was towed to Liverpool by tug. She was probably sold there and renamed by her new owners.

The Stormy Petrel was owned in Liverpool in her early years, and then in the mid-1870's was sold to Capt.J.T.Read, of Portland, who operated the vessel in a variety of trades over the next twenty years. He sold her in February 1894, for £1,750. She was probably bought by foreign owners and had her name changed, as she disappears from the shipping registers after this date.

Sources :

1. Launch reported in the Lancaster Gazette newspaper, Sat., 9th March 1867.
   
2. Mystic Seaport Library Ship Register Search has shipping register details for all years from 1868 to 1894.
3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1867-8 (Supplement): Stormy Petrel, iron barque, 497 gross tons, built Lancaster, March 1867, owned by Gurnock & Co., registered at Liverpool, master Capt.Thurkell, voyage Liverpool - South America.
4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1874-5: Stormy Petrel, iron barque, 497 tons, off.no.56939, owned by J.T.Read, then T.E.Angel, registered at Portland, then Liverpool, master Capt.Thurkell.
5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4: Stormy Petrel, iron barque, 497 tons, owned by J.T.Read, registered  at Liverpool, masters Capts.J.Davies, J.Read.
6. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1889-90: Stormy Petrel (ex-Lady of the Lune), iron barque, 497 tons, signal letters SHGB, owned by J.T.Read, registered  at Liverpool, master Capt.J.Clackrie.
7. Report of sale in the Belfast News-Letter, Thursday, 1st March, 1894.

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