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Champion | Official Number
24371 |
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Champion | Official Number
24371 |
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 11th February 1840, page 3;
" On Wednesday last, a splendid new barque, coppered and copper-fastened, caled the Champion,
burthen per register 220 tons old, and 241 tons new measurement, was
launched from the building-yard of Messrs.Lumley Kennedy and Co., at
this port. The Champion will be commanded by Captain Steele, late of the Hotspur,
and is intended for the East India trade. Immediately after the launch
the keel of a vessel of about 360 tons was laid down upon the blocks
which the Champion had just left, intended for Mr.Jos.Mondell, Esq., of Liverpool."
The Champion was a barque built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co. and was launched on the 5th February 1840. Her first master/owner was Joseph Steel. She was described as having one and a break deck, three masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, man figurehead, framework and planking of wood.
In 1850 the registry of the Champion was moved from Whitehaven to Dumfries, her new owners being William Turner & Co. In 1857, her owners were A.Buick & Co., and her registry was moved to Arbroath. By 1860, the barque was owned in Dundee by W.Moon.
Various voyage destinations are mentioned in Lloyd's Register of Shipping,
including Spain (1840, master J.Steel), Liverpool/Valparaiso (1852, master
J.Redmond), Baltic, West Indies, India (1857 to 60). From 1860 she appears
to have traded from Dundee to the West Indies.
The Dundee Courier & Argus, Tuesday, 14th February 1865;
" WRECK OF THE CHAMPION - On the 2nd Jan., the barque Champion, of
Dundee, tonnage 220, Captain Macintosh, and Mr.William Moon owner,
foundered off the coast of Hayti. Fortunately the crew were saved. The
telegraphic news affords us no further particulars."
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