Ennerdale

Official Number
10596

The Ennerdale was a barque built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co. and launched on the 9th April 1842.

The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 12th April 1842, page 3;

" A splendid new barque of 308 tons, O.M. and 343 tons N.M. was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Lumley Kennedy and Co., at this port, on Saturday last, called the Ennerdale, purchased by Capt.Boadle, late of the Avoca, and intended for the East India trade. The Ennerdale is a very handsome vessel, is substantially built, and altogether finished in a very superior style."

The Ennerdale, bound from Oran for either Cardiff or Newcastle with iron ore and esparto, was lost by fire on the 6th Sept.1879, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast (the location given as "off Cape Mess" in some newspaper reports). The crew saved themselves in their boats, were picked up by an American vessel, then transfered to the steamship Zanetta, which landed them at Genoa.

NB. A much larger iron ship was built at Liverpool in 1874, also named Ennerdale, and belonging to the Dale Line.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
 Ennerdale
1842
 343
104.7 
25.7 
 17.4
3
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Ennerdale, barque, 322 tons, built 1842, owned by Isaac Hodgson, of Whitehaven, registered at Whitehaven, master Capt.Williamson.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Ennerdale, 322 tons, official number 10596, signal letters KPDJ, registered at Whitehaven, owned by William Wilson, of  Whitehaven.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1878-9: Ennerdale, barque, 323 grt, built Whitehaven in 1842, FYM in 1876, official no.10596, signal letters KPDJ, owned by I.Hodgson, registered at Whitehaven, master Capt.W.Williams.
  5. Wreck reported in the Lancaster Gazette, 17th September 1879, page 6.