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Launch report from the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, Tuesday, 8th
February 1825;
" On Saturday was launched from the building yard of Messrs.K.Wood and Son, Maryport, a very fine, copper-bottomed brig, called the Francis Watson, burthen per register, 333 tons, and built for Messrs.Wood and Watson, of Liverpool."
At 333 tons, the Francis Watson
was very large for a brig, but the newspaper report is consistent with
the shipping registers, at least until 1830, when she was listed as a
ship. The first voyage of the Francis
Watson was from Maryport, departed Monday, 28th February 1825
for New Orleans (see Source 2).
The Francis Watson, Captain Bragg, was driven on shore and
wrecked,
after landing her cargo, in Algoa Bay, during a gale, on the 13th
January
1830.
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