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Canada | Official Number
958
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The Canada was a barque built at Maryport by Joseph Huddleston
& John Ritson, and first registered at Maryport on the 24th May 1838. James Potts was named as the first master.
The vessel's registry was transferred to London in 1840, James Potts being named as master and principal owner in that year.
The Canada, bound from Liverpool for Sierra Leone with a
general cargo, was wrecked at Bettystown, near Drogheda, on the 14th
December 1868. The crew were believed to have abandoned the vessel in a
small boat, which was swamped as it left the wreck. All the crew were
drowned.
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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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Canada
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1838
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297
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93.5
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22.2
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17.2
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3
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Male
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Square
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Sources :
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Maryport Shipping Register 1838-52 (TSR 2/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle)
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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.
- Mercantile Navy List 1860: Canada, 297 tons, official number 958, signal letters HFWS, registered at London.
- Mercantile Navy List 1864: Canada, 281 tons, official number 958, signal letters HFWS, registered at London.
- Mercantile Navy List 1867: Canada, 281 tons, official
number 958, signal letters HFWS, registered at London, owned by Francis
Hilbery, of 2 Riches Court, Lime Street, London.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1868-9: Canada, barque, 253
tons om, 297 tons nm, built at Maryport in 1838, registered at London,
owned by Hilberry & Co., master Capt.C.Burgoyne, voyage London -
Africa - annotated "wrecked".
- Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury, Friday, 18th December 1868.