Pandora

Official Number
25742

The Pandora was a barque built at Maryport in November 1837. She was built for John Archer & Co., Liverpool shipowners, and her builders were probably Kelsick Wood & Son, who built several other barques and ships for this firm (see Martha, Elizabeth Archer, Archer, Ursula and John Wood). 

The Pandora, Capt.M'Murdo, was wrecked on a reef at Araceibo on the night of the 4th April 1862. She had been loading a cargo for London and had parted her chains in a "heavy Norther". She had on board at the time 230 hogsheads and 25 barrels of sugar, and the master and five men were drowned. (see Source 5). She was owned at the time of her loss by Imrie & Co., a Liverpool firm.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Pandora
1837
 297
 
 
 
 3
 
 
12 years A1 

Sources :

  1. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1838-9: Pandora, barque, 297 tons, owned by Archer & Co., registered at Liverpool, master Capt.J.Archer.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1839-40: Pandora, barque, yellow-metalled in 1840, 297 tons, owned by Archer & Co., registered at Liverpool, masters Capts.J.Archer and W.Grayson.
  3. Official Number from Mercantile Navy List 1857: Pandora, 279 tons, official number 25742, signal letters PHGC, registered at Liverpool.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1861-2: Pandora, barque, yellow-metalled in 1859, 297 tons, owned by Imrie & Co., registered at Liverpool, master Capt.M'Murdo, voyage Liverpool - Savanilla. (same information is in the following year's register, but this is annotated "Lost").
  5. Loss reported in the Belfast News-Letter, Friday, 2nd May, 1862.