Defiance

Official Number
none

The Defiance was a brig built by John Scott at Whitehaven, launched on the 19th December 1823. She was owned by Capt.Whiteside for her whole career.

The Defiance, Captain Kirk, from St.Domingo and Bermuda with a cargo of mahogany logs, lignum vitae and gum vitae, for Liverpool, grounded on Hilpsford bank, near Pile of Foudrey, on the 1st February 1836. She drifted off the bank and into Morecambe Bay, eventually grounding on the middle bank and capsizing. The twelve crew abandoned the vessel in two boats and landed ashore at Bardsea.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Defiance
1823
 165
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Underwriters' Green Book) 1825: Defiance, brig, coppered, 165 tons, owned by Whiteside & Co., master Capt.Whiteside, voyage Liverpool - Gibraltar.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1835-6: Defiance, brig, coppered in 1832, 165 tons, owned by Whitesides, master Capt.J.Kirk, voyage Bristol - Odessa.
  4. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol.5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyd's Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X (citing information from Lloyd's List, Friday, 5th February 1836, naming port of departure as St.Domingo, and the owners as Whiteside & Co. of Whitehaven, and giving the date of the loss as the 3rd February).
  5. Wreck reported in the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, 9th February 1836.