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Ben Brace | Official Number
12640
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The Ben Brace was a brigantine built at Maryport in 1843 by
Wood
and Sons, with a builders' certificate dated 14th January 1843.
Although a relatively small vessel, she made some significant voyages
in her early career, being reported in 1845 arrriving at Maryport from
Ichiboe, undoubtedly with guano.
The Ben Brace, bound from Dublin for Maryport, was
wrecked at Abermawr, six miles S.W. of Fishguard, on the 2nd December
1867. Of the six crew, only one man was lost.
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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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Ben Brace
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1843
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108
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2
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Sources :
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Maryport Shipping Register 1838-52 (TSR 2/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle)
and Carlisle Shipping Register 1824-38 (TSR 4/2 at Cumbria Record Office,
Carlisle) - state "wrecked on the 2nd December 1867" (place of wreck illegible).
- Shipping Intelligence report from the Morning Chronicle, 11th January 1845.
- Mercantile Navy List 1857: Ben Brace, 108 tons, official
number 12640, signal letters LCQP, registered at Maryport.
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Clayton's Register of Shipping, 1865: Ben Brace, brigantine, 95 tons, owned by Francis Lowrey and commanded
by Capt.J.Brown, registered at Maryport.
- Mercantile Navy List 1867: Ben Brace, 108 tons, official
number 12640 and signal letters LCQP, owned by Francis Lowry, of Maryport, and registered at Maryport.
- Wreck reported in the Standard newspaper, Friday, 6th December 1867, page 7, and the Liverpool Mercury, 11th December 1867.