Maid of Mona

 Official Number
none

The Colonial Times, Friday, 12th March 1841;

" FOR SALE, FREIGHT OR CHARTER - The remarkably fine fast-sailing new brig Maid of Mona, A1, 179 tons, coppered and copper-fastened. This vessel was built at Ramsey, Isle of Man, under particular inspection, from a model specially sent from America, with the great advantage of having been two years in the frame. She is 80 ft. long, 20 ft. broad, 15 ft. deep, and has a raised quarter deck. Her masts and spars are of the best Baltic Red Pine. The stores are abundant, and of the best materials. Purchasers wishing for a vessel of her size, will rarely meet with such an opportunity of suiting themselves."

The Maid of Mona was a snow built at Ramsey, Isle of Man, and launched about July 1839. She was sold to the London, Newcastle and South Shields Shipping Company (see Taglioni) and made her first voyage to the West Indies, then her second voyage to Australia. The Maid of Mona had departed London on the 7th October 1840, put into Cape Town, and left on the 30th December, arriving at Hobart on the 19th February 1841, under the command of Capt.Redhead, and with a general cargo. The vessel was advertised for sale, and left Hobart on the 21st March for Calcutta, in ballast.

The Maid of Mona made at least one more voyage from the UK to Natal and Australia. 

The Maid of Mona, bound from Liverpool to Havanna, was lost in the Old Bahama Channel, near Nuevitas, on the 20th February 1847. The crew were saved.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Maid of Mona
1839
 181 om, 179 nm
 
 
 
2
 
 
7 years A1 

Sources :

  1. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1840-1: Maid of Mona, snow, 181 tons om, 179 tons nm, built Isle of Man in July 1839, coppered 1839, owned by LN & SS Sh Co, registered at London, master Capt.E.Newby, voyages Liverpool - St.Dominica, then London - Hobart Town.
  2. The Colonial Times (Hobart), 21st Feb., 1841 and 23rd March 1841.
  3. Further Australian newspaper reports can be found at the website of the National Library of Australia.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1843-4: Maid of Mona, snow, 181 tons om, 179 tons nm, built Isle of Man 1839, coppered 1842, owned by Brit.Sh.Co, registered at London, master Capt.Ballemy, voyage not stated.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1846-7: Maid of Mona, snow, 181 tons om, 179 tons nm, built Isle of Man 1839, FYM 1846, owned by Brit.Sh.Co, then McLeod, registered at London, then Stornoway, masters Capts.Bellemy & Lennan,voyage Liverpool - Havana.
  6. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1847-8: Maid of Mona, snow, 181 tons om, 179 tons nm, built Isle of Man 1839, FYM 1846, owned by McLeod, registered at Stornoway, master Capt.Lennan, voyage Liverpool - Havana.
  7. Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury, 9th April 1847 (names master as M'Lellan).