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Camilla | Official Number
9268
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The Camilla was a brig or snow built at Whitehaven in 1829 by Wilson
Walker & Co. In 1840 she was registered at Whitehaven and was owned
by Anthony Bell and others.
The Camilla was lost off Newfoundland on the 18th June 1859,
on passage to North America.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Camilla
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1829
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165
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2
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Sources :
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"Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum
(1984)
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"A List of the Cumberland Shipping corrected to February 1840" by William
Sawyers, Comptroller of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port of Whitehaven,
republished by Michael Moon (Whitehaven, 1975, ISBN 0-904131-09-2).
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Mercantile Navy List 1857: Camilla, official
number 9268, signal letters KGPT, vessel registered at Whitehaven.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1859-60: Camilla,
snow, 159 tons, built at Whitehaven in 1829, owned by Kelly & Co.,
registered at Whitehaven, master Capt.J.Quirk, voyage Liverpool-
Newfoundland.