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William Ackers | Official Number
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William Ackers | Official Number
163 |
The William Ackers was probably built on speculation, and
received her name after being sold to Liverpool owners. She was a
barque, launched at Maryport as the Regina on the 11th November 1836.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 15th November 1836;
" A handsome new barque of 327 tons register measurement was
launched on Friday last from the yard of Messrs.Huddleston, Ritson
& Co., at Maryport, called the Regina. This splendid vessel is copper-fastened, and coppered to the bends, has a full length female figurehead, and carved taffrail."
The William Ackers was named after a director of the Bolivian Mining Company, and she made her first voyages between Liverpool and Puerto Cabello and La Guaira in Venezuela. She eventually entered the China trade, and remained under the command of Capt.J.Nicol until his death at Woosung in 1846, after which the barque was sold to London owners.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 25th August 1846, page 3;
" The William Ackers, Nichol, from Liverpool for Shanghae,
got on shore on the North Sands, in the Yang-tzee-Kiang, near Woosung,
on the 13th May, and was left high and dry at the ebb of the tide: part
of the cargo saved - master and four of the crew supposed to be drowned.
The vessel has since been discharged and got off again, and after a
survey has been held and all damage made good, she will immediately
commence taking in another cargo, as the whole has been engaged."
In 1861 the barque carried emigrants from London to Natal.
The William Ackers was wrecked at Waipapa Point (Otago, NZ) on the 12th December 1876. She was bound from Bluff to Lyttleton with cargo of sawn timber, under the command of Capt.D.Lindsay. Three men survived the wreck, eight lives being lost. The deck cargo of timber broke free during the wreck, and this was responsible for most of the casualties.
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