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Bell
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Official Number
7086 |
The Bell was a brig built at Maryport in 1799. She was registered
at Carlisle in 1828 and at Whitehaven in 1840, when she was owned by James
Hannay Watson and commanded by Capt.John Stuart.
The brig Bell, of Whitehaven, Capt.Boadle, from Huelva for Glasgow,
foundered on the 16th September 1860 at position lat.36 0N,
long.6 0W. The crew were saved by the brig
Margaretha, Borzoni, from Taganrog. The crew were landed at Falmouth
on the 13th October.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Bell
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1799
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176
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2
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Sources :
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"Shipbuilding at Maryport - a Checklist", published by the Friends of Whitehaven
Museum, 1989.
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"A List of the Cumberland Shipping corrected to February 1840" by William
Sawyers, Comptroller of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port of Whitehaven,
republished by Michael Moon (Whitehaven, 1975, ISBN 0-904131-09-2).
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Official Number from Mercantile Navy List 1857 - vessel registered at Whitehaven,
176 tons.
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Wreck reported in the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, 16th October, 1860,
page 8 - the position given for the loss, which is in the W approach to
the Straits of Gibraltar, does not correspond to the journey given, since
it is S and E of Huelva. Possibly the brig met a W gale after she left
the port and was driven before it.