Bella Isle

Official Number
none

The Bella Isle was a brig built at Maryport by Thomas Wood in 1791. She was registered at Maryport in 1840, owned by John Walker and commanded by Capt.John Huddart.

The Bella Isle was wrecked at Kearney Point, Portavogie, Co.Down, on the 12th January 1845, on passage from Maryport to Dublin with a coal cargo. The cause of the loss was ascribed by the local newspaper to the master mistaking the light at St.John's Point for that at the Mull of Galloway.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Bella Isle
1791
117
 
  
  
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840", by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven.
  2. "Shipwreck Index of Ireland" by Richard and Bridget Larn, pub.Lloyd's Register-Fairplay (2002), ISBN 1 900839 03 02 - citing Lloyd's List (names vessel as Belisle, and names the master as Cap.Huddart).
  3. Wreck reported in the Belfast News-Letter, Tuesday, 21st January 1845 - names the vessel as Belleisle.