Dykes
 Official Number
none

The Dykes was a 235 ton brigantine built at Maryport by John Peat in 1798. She was registered at Maryport all of her life, and in 1840 was noted as being owned by William Atkinson and others, master Capt.John Sharp. The Dykes was noted as "totally lost" on the 16th September 1848 (see Source 2).

The Times newspaper reported that the Dykes was "totally lost" on Breton Island on the 15th September 1848 (see Source 3).

John Peat built another brig, of 226 tons ,of the same name in 1809, that was also still registered at Maryport in 1840.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Dykes
1798
 235
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

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, republished by Michael Moon (Whitehaven, 1975, ISBN 0-904131-09-2).
  2. Maryport Shipping Register 1838-52 (TSR 2/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle) - place of loss was "island of  ??? (illegible)."
  3. Wreck reported in the Times newspaper, 17th October, 1848, page 7.
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