Joseph Bushby

Official Number 10597

The Joseph Bushby was ship built at Maryport by Robert Ritson, launched on the 19th August 1845.

From The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 26th August 1845:

"On Tuesday the 19th instant, was launched from the building yard of Messrs.Robert Ritson and Co., at Maryport, a splendid new ship of 561 tons register measurement, and named the Joseph Bushby. She has a tall poop, raised forecastle, is coppered on to the bends, and otherwise finished in the highest style of workmanship. This vessel has been built for, and under the immediate superintendence of, John Sparks, Esq., of Clifton, and is the tenth Indiaman built in this county for the same enterprising merchant and shipowner, and the second by the same firm within the last two years. She is to be commanded by Capt.Joseph Sparks, now of the ship Mary Stoddart, a well-known trader to India and China."

Sources :

1. Official Number from Mercantile Navy List 1857 - vessel registered at London.
2. Mystic Seaport Library Ship Register Search has shipping register details for all years from 1861 to 1873. Information in table from American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping.
3. Welsh Mariners website names Capt. William Morgan as master of the Joseph Bushby from 1867 to 1870.