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Brunswick
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Official Number
8628 |
The Brunswick was a brigantine built at Maryport in 1818 by Thomas
Asbridge. She was registered at Carlisle in 1825 and Whitehaven in 1827,
then Maryport. In 1840 she was still registered at Maryport and was described
as a brig, owned by Capt.Joseph Fearon, her master, and others.
The Brunswick, master Fearon, was reported to be
ashore at Whitehaven on the 27th December 1852, when the whole coast was
"strewed with wreck" (see Source 2). She must have been salvaged as she
appears in the 1857 Mercantile Navy List (see Source 3) and the Maryport
Shipping Register, which reports that she was converted to schooner rig
in August 1862.
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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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Brunswick
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1818
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106 om, 97 nm
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2
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Sources :
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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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Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard
& Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X, citing
from Lloyds List and also reporting the Hebe of Harrington, Atlas
of Maryport, New
Draper of Whitehaven to be ashore.
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1857 Mercantile Navy List gives port of registry as Maryport, official
number and signal letters KCWF, tonnage 109.
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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).