Ben Brace

Official Number 12640

The Ben Brace was a brigantine built at Maryport in 1843 by Wood and Sons, with a builders' certificate dated 14th January 1843. In 1865 she was recorded as a 95 ton brigantine owned by Francis Lowrey and commanded by Capt.J.Brown, still Maryport registered.

The Ben Brace was noted in the Maryport register as having been wrecked on the 2nd December 1867 (place of wreck illegible).

From "The Times" newspaper, Friday, 6th December 1867, page 9 :

FISHGUARD, Dec.4. - The Ben Brace, from Dublin for Maryport, having her sails, was driven on the rocks at Abermaur, six miles S.W. of this place, on the 2d of December, and has become a total wreck ; crew except one, saved.

Sources :

1. 1857 Mercantile Navy List gives port of registry as Maryport, official number and signal letters LCQP, tonnage 108.
2. 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).
3. Clayton's Register of Shipping, 1865.