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Joseph Bushby | Official Number
10597 |
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Joseph Bushby | Official Number
10597 |
The Joseph Bushby was ship built at Maryport by Robert Ritson, launched on the 19th August 1845.
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."
From 1861 the vessel was barque-rigged. Shipping register information (American Lloyd's Register of American
and Foreign Shipping) gives the following further details :
| Year | Owner | Master | Port of Registry |
| 1861 to 1863 | Sparks & Co. | Justice | Maryport |
| 1864 to 1869 | Williams & others | S.Davies | Newport |
| 1870 to 1873 | Williams & others | William Watkins | Newport |
The Joseph Bushby was abandoned at sea some time in 1873.
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