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Lord Hardinge | Official Number
25907 |
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Lord Hardinge | Official Number
25907 |
The Lord Hardinge was a ship built at Whitehaven by Lumley
Kennedy & Co. She was launched on the 12th May 1846.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 19th May 1846, page 3;
" A splendid new ship of 378 tons OM and 424 tons new
measurement was launched on Tuesday last from the building-yard of
Messrs.Lumley Kennedy & Co., at this port, called the Lord Hardinge,
in complement to the present Governor General of India. This fine
vessel is classed A1 at Lloyd's for 12 years and is intended for the
India and China trade. She sports an excellent full-length likeness of
the Hero of Sobraon in the uniform of a Field Marshall, executed by
Mr.Brooker,
of Maryport. Her stern is also elaborately carved by the same master
hand, and in point of model, strength, and general finish the Lord Hardinge we apprehend cannot easily be excelled."
The Lord Hardinge made her fiirst voyage to Bombay from Liverpool, under the command of Capt.Tracey. She later made voyages to China. She was sold in the mid-1850's, first to London owners, and then to Sterling & Co.,Glasgow, for whom she spent the rest of her career in the trade to the Caribbean.
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