Jane & Jessie
 Official Number
9368

The Jane & Jessie was a brig built by Lumley Kennedy & Co. at Whitehaven, launched on the 13th August 1839. In the following year she was registered at Whitehaven and was under the command of Capt. John Campbell, her principal owner.

The Jane & Jessie was stranded and lost on Barber Sands, near Caister, Norfolk on the 30th August 1882.  She was on passage from Poole to Unst , Shetland Islands with a cargo of building materials. She was under the command of Capt.J.Bie, her owner from the Isle of Whithorn, though she was still registered at Whitehaven. She carried a crew of five.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Jane & Jessie
1839
 129 om, 123 nm
94.3 
20.0
11.6 
2
 
 
 

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.
  3. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 3 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register - describes the vessel as a brigantine.
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