Terry

Official Number none

The Terry was a brig built at Maryport in 1783 by Thomas Wood. In 1840 she was registered at Maryport and owned by Ann Bell and others, her master being Capt.Robert Hodgson (see Source 1).

From the "Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser", Tuesday, 18th July 1848, page 3 :

" The brig Terry, of Whitehaven, from Liverpool, was struck by a large whale on the 16th May, in lat.37 deg., long.49 deg, became leaky, was abandoned on the 27th, and shortly after sunk: crew saved, and arrived at St.John's, Newfoundland, on the 21st of June."

Sources :

1. "A List of the Cumberland Shipping corrected to February 1840" by William Sawyers, Comptroller of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port of Whitehaven, republished by Michael Moon (Whitehaven, 1975, ISBN 0-904131-09-2).
2. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1840 (information from John Stevenson) - 171 tons, master J.Hodgson, owned by Bell & others.