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" (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.  In 1865 the vessel was registered at Maryport (see Source 5), 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 (see Source 6).

Sources :

1. "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)
2. 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.
3. 1857 Mercantile Navy List gives port of registry as Maryport, official number and signal letters KCWF, tonnage 109.
4. 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).
5. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 - vessel described as a brigantine, 109 tons.
   
6. Wreck reported in the Glasgow Herald and Liverpool Mercury newspapers, both Wednesday, 17th December 1873 (report from Belfast, 16th December).