Clytie
 Official Number
none

The Clytie was a brig built at Maryport by Isaac Middleton, launched on the 23rd September 1824  (see Source 1). In 1840 she was registered at Maryport, owned by Capt.John Jackson (her master) and others (see Source 2).

On the 2nd May 1841 the Clytie, bound from Workington for Anna Gaskin (sic) with a coal cargo, struck on rocks at Cooley Point and sank in 5 fathoms, without loss of life (see Source 1, also 3).
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Clytie
1824
 76 om, 68 nm
 
 
 
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding at Maryport - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, published by the Friends of Whitehaven Museum, 1989.
  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", reprinted by Michael Moon (1975) ISBN 0-904131-0902.
  3. Irish Wrecks Online - describes vessel as a brigantine, wrecked at Ballagan Point, Carlingford Lough, Ireland.
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