Brunswick

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". She must have been salvaged as she appears in the 1857 Mercantile Navy List and the Maryport Shipping Register, which reports that she was converted to schooner rig in August 1862. In 1865 the vessel was registered at Maryport, still owned by Joseph Fearon and commanded by Capt.J.Thompson.

The Brunswick, bound from Liverpool to Dublin with a coal cargo, was wrecked at Orlock Point, County Down, on the morning of 16th December 1873.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Brunswick
1818
 106 om, 97 nm
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. 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).
  2. "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)
  3. Wreck report from 1852 from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol.5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyd's Register (2000) ISBN 1 900839 61 X, citing Lloyd's List and also reporting the Hebe of Harrington, Atlas of Maryport, New Draper of Whitehaven to be ashore.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Brunswick, 109 tons, official number 8628, signal letters KCWF, port of registry Maryport.
  5. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Brunswick, brigantine, 109 tons, built 1818, owned by Joseph Fearon, master mariner, of Maryport, registered at Maryport, master Captain J.Thompson.
  6. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Brunswick, 110 tons, official number 8628, signal letters KCWF, owned by Joseph Fearon, registered at Maryport.
  7. Wreck reported in the Glasgow Herald and Liverpool Mercury newspapers, both Wednesday, 17th December 1873 (report from Belfast, 16th December).