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John & Sarah | Official Number
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John & Sarah | Official Number
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The John & Sarah was a ship built at Maryport by Barns,
Potts & Co. She was launched on the 13th March 1792. Her early history is unknown, but in 1798 she was coppered,
presumably in preparation for a voyage from Liverpool to Africa made
the following year (copper sheathing was used to prevent damage from
the Teredo worm, which is more destructive in the warmer water of the
tropics). By September 1800 the John & Sarah
was
being advertised in a Hull newspaper for a voyage in convoy the
following month, to St.Petersburg, under the command of Capt.Francis
Cobb. From this point the vessel remained based
at Hull, and was probably registered there. The vessel was sold
in 1801 to Richard Terry and soon after acquired Capt.John
Daggett as her commander. An attempt was made to sell the vessel
in 1803 (see below), but it seems this was unsuccessful, as Terry &
Co. continued to be named as owners until 1810.
The Hull Packet, Tuesday, 8th February 1803;
" For Sale by Private Contract- the copper-bottomed brig John and Sarah,
Nathaniel Blanchard, master; 183 tons register. This vessel was built
at Maryport in 1792; was sheathed with wood and copper, in 1798: stands
A.1. in the new register-books; sails remarkably fast; and is a very
suitable vessel for the Southern trades. Apply to Richard Terry &
Son, Hull."
This advertisement, like that of 1801, describes the John & Sarah
as a brig, which is inconsistent with Lloyd's Register, and indeed all
other references to the vessel, and may be a mistake. Capt.Daggett
continued mainly in the trade from Hull to the Baltic, and the vessel
was relatively lightly armed, with only two cannon, probably because
she mostly sailed in convoy. In 1807 the vessel was repaired and
lengthened, her tonnage being substantially increased. Her
command passed to Capt.Walter Bilton in 1809, and she seems to have
moved away from the Baltic trade. In 1812, when the vessel was engaged
in the trans-Atlantic trade, her armament was increased to ten cannon,
this probably made necessary by the risk posed by American privateers
and warships. After the end of the War of 1812 this armament was
reduced, and a few years later the John & Sarah was engaged in taking passengers to Philadelphia and Quebec.
On the 17th July 1819 the ship John & Sarah, Capt.William Bilton, arrived at Quebec from Philadelphia, in ballast but with 5 passengers (see Ships List).
1820 was her last appearance in Lloyd's Register, so it is likely that
the vessel was lost, sold foreign or broken-up in that year.
A brig also named John & Sarah was built at Maryport in 1804.
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