Clytie

Official Number
none

The Clytie was an hermaphrodite brig built at Maryport by Isaac Middleton, launched on the 23rd September 1824. In 1840 she was registered at Maryport, owned by Capt.John Jackson (her master) and others. She seems to have been transferred to the Workington Shipping Register shortly before her loss, possibly indicating she had been sold to a new owner.

On the 2nd May 1841 the Clytie, Capt.Archibald Lemon, bound from Workington for Annagassan with a coal cargo, struck on a rock called Bully Mount, previously unknown, about a mile and a half off Cooley Point, at the mouth of Carlingford Lough. The brigantine sank almost immediately in 5 fathoms, but the crew were saved with the assistance of a local man, Mr.James Gernon, of Willmount. The vessel broke up in a storm a few days later.

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. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1840-1: Clytie, brigantine, 68 tons, built at Maryport in 1824, owned by Jackson & Co., belonging to port of Maryport, master Capt.J.Jackson.
  4. Entry no.8 for 1841 in the Workington Shipping Register 1839-55 (Ref.TSR/3/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Whitehaven) - states wrecked on a rock called Bully Mount, Carlingford, 2nd May 1841.
  5. Wreck reported in the Belfast News-Letter, Friday, 21st May 1841 and the Freeman's Journal, Thursday, 20th May 1841.