Eliza

Official Number 16444

The Eliza was a snow built by Isaac Middleton at Maryport, and launched on the 21st December 1835. She was registered at Whitehaven initially, then at Lancaster from 1839.

The Eliza was wrecked at Port Dinllaen, Lleyn Peninsula, on the 26th October 1859, with the loss of all five crew. This was during the same storm as the famous wreck of the Australian emigrant ship Royal Charter, off Anglesey.

Sources :

1. "Shipbuilding at Maryport - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, published by the Friends of Whitehaven Museum, 1989.
2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1836-7: Eliza, brig, 90 tons, built at Maryport in 1835, registered at Whitehaven, owned by Bryce & Co., master Capt.J.Bryce - annotated "Sunk".
3. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Eliza, 90 tons, official number 16444, signal letters MBNG, registered at Lancaster.
4. Lancaster Shipping Register 1834 onwards, ref.SS.5/4 at Lancashire Record Office - "wrecked about 27th October 1859 at Porterrilion ? Caernarvon.".
5. Loss included in the "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles, Vol.5" by Richard & Bridget Larn.
6. Wreck reported by the North Wales Chronicle, Saturday, 29th October 1859, where the vessel was described as the Eliza, of Preston, and the wreck location was named as Porth Ferin.
   

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