Delight

Official Number 9367

The Delight was a brig built at Maryport by William Wood, launched in 1766. In 1840 she was registered at Workington, owned by Capt.Robert Graves (her master) and others.

The Delight was lost on the 5th December 1877 at Dundalk, Ireland. At the time of the loss she was registered at Whitehaven and owned by R.Graves of Workington. The vessel was on passage from Workington to Dublin with a coal cargo, and in a SSE gale became grounded half a mile S of the Drogheda Bar. Her crew of four took to the rigging and were saved at low water.

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", reprinted by Michael Moon (1975) ISBN 0-904131-0902 - 119 tons.
2. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Delight, 119 tons, official number 9367, signal letters KHBM, registered at Whitehaven.
3. Clayton's Register of Shipping, 1865: Delight, brig, 119 tons, vessel registered at Whitehaven, owner and master named as Graves,.
4. Mercantile Navy List 1876: Delight, brigantine, 119 tons, built at Maryport in 1766, official number 9367, signal letters KHBM, registered at Whitehaven, owned by Robert Graves, of Belleisle Place, Whitehaven.
   
5. "Shipwreck Index of Ireland" by Richard and Bridget Larn (pub. Lloyd's Register-Fairplay, 2002), ISBN 1 900839 03 02 - citing from Lloyd's List, BoT Wreck returns and Lloyd's Register.

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