Hope
 Official Number
none

Source 1 lists seven vessels named Hope built at Whitehaven :
 

Name
 Launch
 Type
Tons
 Builder
Details
 Hope
1766
 Brigantine 110 William Palmer Registered at Maryport in 1828.
 Hope
2nd July 1784
 Brig 150 William Bowes   
 Hope   Brig 180    
 Hope
31st January 1792
 Ship 220 Samuel Nicholson Lost on North American passage in 1802 (see also Source 3).
 Hope
1794
 Brig 125   Registered at Maryport in 1811.
 Hope
December 1796
 Brig  187 James Shepherd This vessel is listed in Lloyd's Register in 1802 & 1803 (owned by Key & Co., master T.Losh), but not 1804, and is probably the vessel lost at Dun Laoghaire in 1803, see below.
 Hope
22nd November 1808
 Ship 244 William Bowes  Registered at Maryport in 1840 (see Source 2)

From the Times newspaper, Thursday, 3rd February, 1803, page 3 (but see also Source 4):

" DUBLIN, JANUARY 29 - Thursday morning, the bodies of six men, among the shattered wreck of a vessel, floated into Dunleary. She proves to have been the Hope, Houghton, from Whitehaven, with coals for this port, probably beaten to pieces off the Mugglin Rocks. Several bodies were also thrown on Merrion-strand. "
Sources :
  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. "A List of the Cumberland Shipping corrected to February 1840" by William Sawyers, Comptroller of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port of Whitehaven, republished by Michael Moon (Whitehaven, 1975, ISBN 0-904131-09-2).
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1802 - ship, 220 tons, master J.Cragg, owned by Capt.& Co. Vessel not included in 1803 Lloyd's Register.
  4. "The Shipwreck Index of Ireland", by Richard & Bridget Larn, ISBN 1 900839 03 2, published by Lloyd's Register - Fairplay (2002) also describes the wreck of the Hope on the 26th January 1803, giving the name of the master as Hodgkinson or Hodgson.
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