Larch
 Official Number
none

The Larch was a snow built at New Brunswick in 1819. She was registered at Whitehaven and employed in the Whitehaven -Dublin coal trade for many years.

The Larch, returning from Dublin in ballast, was wrecked at Poolvash, one mile SW of Castletown, Isle of Man, on the 21st February 1846. The crew were saved.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Larch
1819
 182
 
 
 
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" - owned by Thomas Macadam, commanded by Capt.Noble Macadam.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1841-2: brig, owned and commanded by Capt.M'Adam, registered at Whitehaven.
  3. Wreck reported in the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, 3rd March 1846, page 3.
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