Gleneira

Official Number
none

The Cumberland Pacquet, Tuesday, 21st January 1840, Page 3;

" A splendid new ship named the Gleneira, 360 tons register, built for Captain Newby, jun., and intended for the India trade, was yesterday launched from the building-yard of Messrs.Huddleston, Ritson & Co., at Maryport. This is the third large vessel that the same firm have launched within the last twelve months.."

The Gleneira was the first vessel built at this shipyard after the death of shipbuilder John Peat. The Gleneira was described as a barque of 360 tons in the Maryport Shipping Register, but as a ship by Willliam Sawyers. Her first master was Capt.John Newby, her principal owner.

The register for the Gleneira was closed on the 5th July 1843, it being noted that she had been "lost in the China Sea".

Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 24th November 1842, Page 3;

" SHIPWRECK - Another case of shipwreck has again occurred close to this port. The Gleneira, of Liverpool, 360 tons burden, Captain Newby, on her voyage from Siam to this place, ran ashore on the NE point of Pulo Binting - about a quarter past three on the morning of Monday the 14th current, and although every exertion was made to get her off, the ship stuck fast. The schooner Venus was dispatched from Singapore by the agents of the Gleneira to her assistance, and the gun-boat was also sent by the authorities to render protection and assistance, but it was found impossible to save the ship, so that they returned here on Sunday last, bringing the crew of the Gleneira, and the boats and part of the stores which were got out. The Gleneira has since become a total wreck. She is on the same ref, we believe, on which the Sylph was stranded about eight years ago. It is supposed that she was carried onto the rocks by the current, which was setting against her very strongly."

In subsequent years it became clear that charts of the N coast of Bintang were inaccurate, and that this, rather than a strong current or poor navigation, had been responsible for many wrecks.

It seems that Capt.Newby subsequently took command of the Isabella Harnett.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Gleneira
1840
313 om, 367 nm
 
 
 
3
 
 
12 years A1 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding at Maryport - A Checklist", published in 1989 by the Friends of Whitehaven Museum.
  2.  Maryport Shipping Register 1838-52 (TSR 2/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle) - builder's certificate dated 2nd March 1840.
  3. "A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840", by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1840-1: Gleneira, barque, 313 om tons, 360 nm tons, built January 1840 at Maryport, coppered in 1840, owned by Newby & Co., registered at Maryport, master Capt.J.Newby, voyage Liverpool - Calcutta.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1842-3: Gleneira, barque, 313 om tons, 360 nm tons, built 1840 at Maryport, FYM in 1842, owned by Newby & Co., registered at Maryport, master Capt.J.Newby, voyage Liverpool - East Indies.
  6. Lloyd's List, Tuesday, 10th January (column 9) and Tuesday, 7th February 1843 (column 12) - "24th Jan. - The Gleneira, Newby, hence for Siam, was wrecked on the NE Point of Pulo Bintang, 14th inst.; part of materials saved."
  7. Refer to National Library of Singapore website to access Singapore newspaper.
  8. Wreck reported in the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, 14th February 1843.