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Dykes | Official Number
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The Dykes was a 235 ton brigantine built at Maryport by John
Peat in 1798. She was registered at Maryport all of her life.
The Dykes was wrecked
on Breton Island on the 15th September 1848.
John Peat built another brig, of 226 tons, of the same name in 1809,
that was also still registered at Maryport in 1848.
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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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Dykes
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1798
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235
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2
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Sources :
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Maryport Shipping Register 1838-52 (TSR 2/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle)
- records place of loss was "island of ??? (illegible)."
- "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): Dykes, brig, 235 tons, built at Maryport by John
Peat in 1798, owned by William Atkinson and others, registered at Maryport, master Capt.John
Sharp.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1847-8: Dykes, brig, 235
tons, built at Maryport in 1798, owned by Robinson, registered at
Maryport, master Capt.Cockton, voyage Maryport - North America.
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Wreck reported in the Morning Post newspaper, 17th October, 1848 - "the Dykes was totally lost
on Breton Island, 15th September."