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John Currey | Official Number
18258 |
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John Currey | Official Number
18258 |
The John Currey was a full-rigged ship built at Maryport by
Ritson & Son, and launched on the 9th September 1854.
Bound from Calcutta to China, she was wrecked on the South Sands, in
the Straits of Malacca, in October 1855. Her crew were saved.
The Straits Times, 2nd September 1855, page 1;
"By the H.C.Steamer Hooghly, which arrived at Singapore on Saturday,
Sept.1st., we received the following:- The English ship John Currey,
of
1,000 Tons burthen, (quite new, being her first voyage) owned by
Messrs.F.Johnston & Co., of Maryport, Cumberland, commanded by
Captain G.Tickle, left Calcutta 10th August, 1855, with a full cargo of
rice for Hong Kong. On the morning of the 28th (having passed close to
the Light vessel on the 2½ fathom bank the evening before) the
ship
was supposed to be on the Malacca side of the Straits, close to
Parcelar Hill, when suddenly at 4.30 A.M. she grounded, remained fixed
on a coral patch on the South Sands, where at low water, she had only
three feet of water under her. For two days kept continually throwing
the rice overboard and tried to get her off, but found it impossible,
she was then beginning to break up fast and making a great deal of
water, and on the morning of the 30th, there being 9 feet of water in
her hold, she was abandoned, and the crew picked up by the steamer
Hooghly. The cause of the loss is supposed to be the strong floods
runnoing out of the Straits of Callum, stetting her on the South Sands."
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