Capella
 Official Number
9250

The Capella was a brig launched at Whitehaven on the 3rd November,1838, by Lumley Kennedy & Co. In 1840 she was registered at Whitehaven and was owned by her master, Capt. Anthony Candlish.

The Capella was lost near Howth, Ireland, carrying coal (see Source 1, no date given).
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
 Capella
1838
121 nm, 117 om
 
 
 
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. 1857 Mercantile Navy List gives port of registry as Whitehaven, official number and signal letters KGNQ, tonnage 117.
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