John Spencer

Official Number
3048

The John Spencer was a ship built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co. and launched on the 10th March 1849. She was owned by Boadle & Co., of Whitehaven, and was registered at that port. Her career was spent in the trade to India and the Far East.

The John Spencer, Capt.Harrison, sailed from Sand Heads, Calcutta, on the 30th March 1858, bound for Singapore, and no more was heard of her. She was probably lost in the same storm as the Mary Cannon.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
 John Spencer
1849
 520 nm
 
 
 
3
 
 
13 years A1 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1849-50: John Spencer, ship, yellow-metalled in 1849, 452 tons (om), 520 tons (nm), registered at Whitehaven, owned by Boadle & Co., master Capt.Ledbetter, voyage Whitehaven - East Indies.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1857: John Spencer, 520 tons, official number 3048, signal letters HRQD, port of registry Whitehaven.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1858-9:  John Spencer, ship, yellow-metalled in 1857, 452 tons (om), 520 tons (nm), registered at Whitehaven, owned by Boadle & Co., master Capt.T.Harrison.
  5. Loss reported in the Morning Chronicle newspaper,  Thursday, 23rd September, 1858.
  6. Mercantile Navy List 1860 - obituary for Henry Douglas Martin, drowned in the John Spencer of Whitehaven.