Alciope

Official Number
24350

The Alciope was a brig launched on the 24th October 1835 by Lumley Kennedy & Co. at Whitehaven. She was owned and registered at Whitehaven in her early years, then went to Liverpool and ended her career in East Anglia.

In November 1877, whilst bound from Shields for Maldon with a coal cargo, the Alciope suffered a collision with a barque off Southwold. She was towed into Lowestoft roads on the 15th November with her jibboom and foremasthead gone. After repair she was towed out by a steam tug on the morning of Tuesday, 20th November, but going through the Stanford Channel she struck on Holm Sand. Two tugs managed to pull her off at the height of the evening flood tide, but the brig was found to be full of water, and so was run ashore at Ness Point and abandoned. The Alciope was owned at Maldon by H.G.Warwicker, and was under the command of Capt.S.Hawkins, with a crew of seven others, for her final voyage.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Alciope
1835
 199
 85.1
 23.0
 15.22
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  2. A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven: Alciope, brig, 199 tons, registered at Whitehaven, owned by her master, Capt.William Bennett, and others.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Alciope, port of registry Liverpool, official number 24350, signal letters NWKG.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Alciope, 194 tons, port of registry Maldon, official number 24350, signal letters NWKG, owned by H.G.Warwicker, of Maldon, Essex.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1874-5: Alciope, brig, 194 grt, built Whitehaven, 1835, official no.24350, signal letters NWKG, owned by H.G.Warwicker, registered at Maldon, no master named.
  6. The Standard (London newspaper), Friday, 16th November 1877, page 7: "The Alciope. of Maldon, has been taken into Lowestoft with loss of jibboom and foremasthead through collision." See also the Times, Friday, 16th November 1877, page 11.
  7. Wreck reported in the Ipswich Journal, Saturday, 24th November 1877 - gives final voyage as Shields for Maldon.
  8. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 3 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyd's Register - gives final voyage as Blyth for Chatham.