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Defiance | Official Number
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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.
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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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Defiance
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1823
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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)
- Lloyd's
Register of Shipping (Underwriters' Green Book) 1825: Defiance, brig, coppered,
165 tons, owned by Whiteside & Co., master Capt.Whiteside, voyage
Liverpool - Gibraltar.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1835-6: Defiance, brig,
coppered in 1832, 165 tons, owned by Whitesides, master
Capt.J.Kirk, voyage Bristol - Odessa.
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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).
- Wreck reported in the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, 9th February 1836.