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Menzies | Official Number
15035 |
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Menzies | Official Number
15035 |
The Menzies was a ship built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co., launched on the 1st December 1845.
Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser and Cumberland Pacquet,
Tuesday, 2nd December 1845;
" A splendid new ship was yesterday launched from the building-yard
of Messrs.Lumley Kennedy and Co., at this port, called the Menzies,
burthen per register 448 tons new measurement, the sole property of Messrs.Jones
and Younghusband, insurance brokers, Liverpool. The Menzies, as
regards model, is perfection itself, and she is altogether as fine a vessel
as perhaps was ever built in the county. The plank is fastened with copper
bolts instead of trenails from the heads of the first foothooks upto the
gunwhale, and she is the first merchant vessel ever built in Europe without
an iron fastening through her. This splendid ship is intended for the China
trade, under the command of Captain Whitham, and will sail for Canton via
Bombay early in the month of January next. The Menzies is an A1,
thirteen years' ship, and the largest which has yet been launched from
the above yard."
The Menzies was condemned and sold at Penang on the 22nd September 1879, possibly due to damage by storm or wreck, or perhaps failure at survey. She was restored to the registry at Prince of Wales Island in 1880.
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