Jumna

Official Number
25674

The Jumna was a ship built by Thos.& Jno.Brocklebank at Bransty, Whitehaven, launched on the 22nd April 1833. She was registered at Liverpool and traded for the Brocklebank firm until 1856, chiefly to Calcutta. Her first master was Capt.Joseph Pinder, who had previously commanded the Patriot King. His first voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta and back took only eight months and two days, a record for a Brocklebank ship. The next voyage, started on the 14th May 1834, was reported as the first voyage direct from Liverpool to China. In 1840 the master of the Jumna was Capt.McGill, then in 1855 it was Capt.J.Sharp.

After being bought by the Tay Whale Fishing Company of Dundee, the Jumna was modified into a steamship (in February 1863). Her first whaling trip ended in Melville Bay on the 29th June 1863, when she was crushed by the ice. She was lost along with the Pacific, of Aberdeen, and the Lady Sale, of Hull, all screw steamers.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Jumna
1833
364 
111.10 
27.9 
8.1 
3 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984) - gives date of sale as 1862.
  2. "From Cumberland to Cape Horn" by D.Hollett.
  3. The Times newspaper, Weds.26th Feb.1834, page 5 : "Liverpool.-Arrived, the Jumna, from Calcutta, sailed 16th November, having made the passage out and home in eight months and two days."
  4. Log books for this voyage (from Liverpool to Calcutta and back: 21 June 1833 - 23 February 1834) are held at the Liverpool Record Office, cat.no. 387 MD/38.
  5. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Jumna, 364 tons, official number 25674, signal letters PGWM, port of registry  Liverpool.
  6. See Merseyside Maritime Museum website for a painting of the Jumna and five other Brocklebank vessels commanded by Capt.Joseph Pinder.
  7. Wreck reported in the Dundee Courier & Argus, 9th October 1863.