Camilla

Official Number
9268

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.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
 Camilla
1829
 165
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  2. "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).
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Camilla, official number 9268, signal letters KGPT, vessel registered at Whitehaven.
  4. 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.