Cossack
 Official Number
none

The Cossack was an eight gun brig launched on the 4th February 1813. She had been built by Daniel, Thomas & John Brocklebank at Whitehaven,  and she served the Brocklebank Line for eleven years.

The Cossack mainly sailed to the Caribbean and South America, and was lost on such a voyage in 1824. On passage from Liverpool to Buenos Aires under Capt.Kerr she encountered a heavy gale as she neared the River Plate. On the 19th March the brig struck the Orhez Bank ("Banco Ingles") off Montevideo and sank in 5 fathoms. Source 1 states that the mate was drowned, but Source 2 states that no lives were lost.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Cossack
1813
172
81.0
21.6
14.0
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "From Cumberland to Cape Horn" by D.Hollett.
  2. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  3. www.users.bigpond.com/r.browne/website/_browne1.htm
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