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Pandora
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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 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.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Pandora
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1837
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297
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3
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12 years A1
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Sources :
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1838-9: barque, 297 tons, owned
by Archer & Co., registered at Liverpool, master Capt.J.Archer.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1839-40: barque, yellow-metalled in 1840, 297 tons, owned
by Archer & Co., registered at Liverpool, masters Capts.J.Archer and W.Grayson.
- Official Number from Mercantile Navy List 1857 - registered at Liverpool, 279 tons, signal letters PHGC.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1861-2: 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").
- Loss reported in the Belfast News-Letter, Friday, 2nd May, 1862.