Hannah

Official Number
none

The Hannah was a brig built at Dublin in 1819 or 1820. She was registered at Whitehaven in 1840 and was owned by James Reed and others, her master being Capt.Joseph Gregory.

The New York Times, 26th April 1854, page 4;

" HALIFAX, Tuesday, April 26.- The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Capt.Judkins, from Liverpool, on Saturday, the 15th instant, arrived here at 1 o'clock this morning..... the Arabia reports : April 19, 6 P.M., lat.49 deg. lon.32 deg., saw a brig with signals of distress flying. Bore down to her and found her to be the Hannah, of Whitehaven, in a sinking condition. Took off her crew, together with the crew of the brig Helena, of Liverpool - twenty-three persons in all, ten of whom were sick. The crew of the Helena (which foundered in lat.51 deg. lon.51 deg.) had been taken off by the Hannah."

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Hannah
1819
 190
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1853-4: Hannah, brig, 190 tons, built 1820 at Dublin, owned by Read & Co., registered at Whitehaven, master Capt.J.Gregory.
  3. Loss reported in the Liverpol Mercury, 12th May 1854, which gives the Hannah's voyage as Liverpool to St.John, Newfoundland, and names the other brig as the Lena, Liverpool for Quebec.