 |
Paragon | Official Number
21303
|
The Paragon was a brig built by John Peat at Maryport, launched on the 21st January 1829.
In 1840 she was registered at Maryport, owned by Edward Wilkinson, her
master. In 1873 the Paragon was registered at Whitehaven, and in 1880 she was registered at Beaumaris, Anglesey.
Another brig named Paragon
was registered at Maryport until her loss in 1838.
|
Name
|
Year Built
|
Gross Tons
|
Length (feet)
|
Breadth (feet)
|
Depth (feet)
|
Masts
|
Figurehead
|
Stern
|
Lloyd's Classn.
|
|
Paragon
|
1829
|
120 om
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
Sources :
-
"Shipbuilding at Maryport - A Checklist", published in 1989 by the Friends
of Whitehaven Museum.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1837-8: Paragon, brig, registered at Maryport, owned
and commanded by Wilkinson.
-
"A List of the Cumberland Shipping corrected to February 1840" by William
Sawyers, Comptroller of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port of Whitehaven",
reprinted by Michael Moon (1975) ISBN 0-904131-0902.
-
1857 Mercantile Navy List gives Official Number, vessel registered at Maryport,
114 tons, signal letters NSFD.
-
Clayton's Register of Shipping, 1865: Paragon, schooner,
109 tons, built 1829, registered at Maryport, owned and commanded by
J.Wilkinson, master mariner, of Flimby, near Maryport.
- Mercantile Navy List 1867: Paragon, 109 tons, official number 21303, signal letters NSFD, registered at Maryport, owned by Jeremiah Wilkinson, of Flimby, Cumberland.