Elter Water

Official Number
18084

The Elter Water was a brigantine or schooner built at Maryport in 1857. She was owned and registered at Whitehaven in her early years, and ended her career registered at Dublin.

The Elter Water was wrecked at Widemouth Beach, Cornwall, on the 22nd December 1894. The schooner had been bound from Swansea for Cherbourg with coal, and all the crew were saved. Francis Norie, a coastguard from Bude, was awarded the Board of Trade's bronze medal for gallantry for his service at the wreck.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Elter Water
1857
 133
 
 
 
2
 
 
A1 7 years 

Sources :

  1. Not listed in "Shipbuilding at Maryport - A Checklist", published in 1989 by the Friends of Whitehaven Museum. Possibly launched under another name.
  2. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Elterwater, brigantine, 133 tons, built 1857, registered at Whitehaven, owned by John Hodgson, of Whitehaven, master Capt.Burns.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1868: Elter Water,133 tons, official number 18084, signal letters MKHP, registered at Whitehaven, owned by John Hodgson, of 42 Irish Street, Whitehaven.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1878: Elter Water, brigantine, 109 tons, built at Maryport in 1857, official number 18084, signal letters MKHP, registered at Whitehaven, owned by Thomas Burns, of Whitehaven.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1878-9: Elter Water, brigantine, 133 grt, official number 18084, signal letters MKHP, owned by T.Burns, built at Maryport in 1857, master Capt.J.Burns, registered at Whitehaven.
  6. Mercantile Navy List 1892: Elter Water, brigantine, 90 tons, built at Maryport in 1857, official number 18084, signal letters MKHP, registered at Dublin, owned by Richard Kearon, of Arklow, Co.Wicklow.
  7. Wreck reported in the Glasgow Herald, 25th December 1894.