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Black Prince | Official Number
2330
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The Black Prince was a brig built at Maryport, launched May 1838.
The Black Prince was owned in Whitby when she was lost. On the evening of the 22nd March 1890 the brig was run down in fine weather 8 miles off Skinningrove (a few miles N of Whitby) by the steamer Larch, of Sunderland. The crew of ten safely abandoned the sinking brig in their longboat, and then rowed to Whitby harbour. The brig had been under the command of Captain R.Dixon and had been bound from Hartlepool to Portsmouth with coal.
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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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Black Prince
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1838
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298
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99.6
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25.5
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16.8
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2
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12 years A1.
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Sources :
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Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1840-1: Black Prince, brig,
298 gross tons, built at Maryport in May 1838, coppered in 1840, owned
by Clint & Co., registered at Liverpool, master
Capt.E.Martin, voyages Liverpoool - Rio de Janeiro and Liverpool - Lima.
- Mercantile Navy List 1857: Black Prince, 298 tons, official no.2330, signal letters HNRG, registered at Liverpool.
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Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1887-8: Black Prince, brig,
272 gross tons, built at Maryport in 1838, official no.2330, signal
letters HNRG, owned by A.Storm, registered at Whitby, master
Capt.R.Dixon.
- Wreck reported in the Northern Echo, 24th March 1890 and the The Yorkshire Herald, 25th March 1890, page 7.