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The Constellation was a brig built by Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank
at Bransty, Whitehaven in June 1817. She had a short-lived career, trading
to the Caribbean until 1819, when she was put into the emigrant trade to
Canada. It has been claimed that Brocklebanks put her onto this unusual
transatlantic route to avoid the requirements of an 1816 law which regulated
the number of passengers that could be carried in relation to a vessel's
size - the law only applied to destinations outside the British colonies.
According to the 1816 law the Constellation would have only been
allowed to carry 40 passengers, but in fact she took 145 on her first voyage.
They all survived and arrived successfully in Canada. However, this was
thanks to a schooner which picked them up from the Constellation,
which had been wrecked near New Brunswick. The master on this voyage was
Capt. Thomas Fell.
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