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Earl of Lonsdale | Official Number
7840 |
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Earl of Lonsdale | Official Number
7840 |
The Earl of Lonsdale was a ship built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co., launched on the 19th January 1839.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday,
22nd January 1839, page 3;
" LAUNCH
OF THE EARL OF LONSDALE - A splendid new ship
to which the above name was given was launched from the building-yard of
Messrs. Lumley Kennedy & Co. at this port, on Saturday last at noon.............This splendid vessel
registers 350 tons, is coppered and copper-bolted throughout, of admirable
workmanship, and her mould such as Mr.Kennedy, the master-builder, may
well be proud of. In short, she is admitted by competent nautical judges
to be as perfect a specimen of shipbuilding as ever left the shores of
Cumberland. She has been two years on the stocks, and is of course well-seasoned.
She has a full length figurehead - an admirable likeness of the revered
Nobleman whose title she bears, and on her stern is a beautifully executed
representation of Lowther Castle, in relief, both by Brookman, Maryport.
- The Earl of Lonsdale was built for Mr.John Piele, jun., of the
Standard, and is intended, we believe, for the East India trade."
In 1840 the Earl of Lonsdale was owned by John Peile sen. and commanded by
John Peile jun. She ended her career owned in Greenock.
The Daily News, 2nd January 1861;
" Earl of Lonsdale (barque) of Greenock, Captain Ferguson, from
Demerara to the Clyde, with a cargo of greenheart timber, was abandoned
in a sinking state on the 23rd of November, at 6 am, and went down at
7.45 in lat.12N, long.58W; crew arrived here - Tobago, Dec.8."
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