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Elter Water | Official Number
18084
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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.
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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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Elter Water
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1857
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133
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2
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A1 7 years
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Sources :
- Not listed in "Shipbuilding at Maryport - A Checklist", published in 1989 by the Friends
of Whitehaven Museum. Possibly launched under another name.
- Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Elterwater, brigantine, 133 tons, built 1857, registered at Whitehaven, owned by John Hodgson, of Whitehaven, master Capt.Burns.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wreck reported in the Glasgow Herald, 25th December 1894.