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Martha | Official Number
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Martha | Official Number
26011 |
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 25th December 1838;
" This day week, a very fine coppered vessel, of 248 tons register, named the Martha,
and built for Messrs.John Archer & Co., of Liverpool, was launched
from the building yard of Messrs.K.Wood and Sons, Maryport. The
launching of this vessel, which is destined for the West India trade,
was attended by a singular and rather alarming occurence. The tide at
the time was low, and there is a great accumulation of mud in the
harbour, consequently after the vessel had glided majestcally into the
water she freed herself from the larboard bilge log, but could not, at
the same time, get quit of the other, and the presence of the latter on
the ground threw her on her beam ends. Being fully rigged, she remained
floating a short time in that position.; but in about two hours she was
safely moored alongside the quay, taking in ballast and bending sails.
The vessel, which did not sustain the least injury from the accident,
sailed for Liverpool on Thursday last."
The Martha was owned by Lee & Co. of Liverpool. She was the third vessel built by Kelsick Wood for John Archer & Co., following the Archer and the Pandora. The master of the Martha from 1847 to 1850 was Capt.Joseph Mundle, and under his command the brig traded to Chile and Peru
The Martha, Capt Joseph Mundle, left Launceston, Tasmania bound for New Zealand on the 1st August 1848 (see Source 2).
Capt.Joseph Mundle was born in Scotland, date unknown, his father being George Mundle, ship builder. He was married in 1844 at Liverpool, and his daughter, Elizabeth, was later born aboard the Martha. Elizabeth's brother, George, was born on the 30th September 1850 on board the ship John Wood in Whampoa Anchorage on the Pearl River, Canton, China. Capt.Mundle commanded the following vessels before his death at Wusong (Shanghai) on the 7th August 1863.
| Date | Vessel | Owners | Voyage |
| 1847-1850 | Martha | ||
| 1855 | Commodore Perry | Black Ball Line, Liverpool | Liverpool - Launceston - Sydney - Bombay |
| 1856 -1857 | Oliver Lang | Black Ball Line, Liverpool | Liverpool - Wellington - Nelson - Lyttleton |
| 1857 | Donald McKay | Black Ball Line, Liverpool | Liverpool - Melbourne - Liverpool |
| 1857-1858 | Oliver Lang | Black Ball Line, Liverpool | Liverpool - Wellington. Wrecked in a storm in Wellington Harbour |
| 1860 | Anne Longton | Liverpool - Nelson - New Plymouth, NZ |
The Martha was registered at Workington in 1860 and at Sunderland
in 1873. She was lost in 1873.
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