New Margaret

Official Number
14359

The New Margaret was a ship built by Lumley Kennedy & Co. at Whitehaven, launched on the 1st July 1844.

The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 2nd July 1844, page 3;

"A splendid new vessel called the New Margaret was yesterday launched from the building yard of Messrs.Lumley Kennedy and Co., at this port, burthen per register N.M. 411 tons, and O.M. 355. She is the property of William Alexander, Esq., Underwriters' Row, Liverpool, will stand A1 at Lloyds' for 12 years, is intended for the China Trade, and will be commanded by Captain W.Ager, late of the Orixa. She is ship-rigged, with poop to the rail and topgallant forecastle deck, and has a beautiful female bust head, with a richly carved taffrail and imitation galleries."

The first voyage of the New Margaret was from Liverpool to Hong Kong and Whampoa. She made voyages to Australia and to India later in her career, which seems to have lasted until 1874, when she disappeared from Lloyd's Register, probably sent for breaking. She seems to have been owned by members of the Alexander family throughout her life.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
New Margaret
1844
355 0m, 411 nm
  109.2
26.8  
18.5 
3 
Female
 
12 years, A1 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1844=5 (Supplement): New Margaret, ship, 355 tons om, 411 tons nm, built at Whitehaven in 1844, registered at Liverpool, owned by Alexander, master Capt.Ager, voyage Whitehaven - China.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1857: New Margaret, 411 tons  official number 14359, , signal code LMTF, vessel registered at Exeter.
  4. The Ships List reports that Robert Alexander founded the "Hall Line" of Liverpool, and that the New Margaret, 370 tons, built 1844, was purchased in 1850 and scrapped in 1874.
  5. South Australian Migrant Shipping (1836-1860) reports the New Margaret, Captain Wright, arriving at Port Adelaide from London in 1860.
  6. On 19th January 1860 the ship New Margaret left Gravesend in England with 10,000 ore bags, 160 barrels of gunpowder and a large quantity of mining implements for the Chambers' mines - from The Chambers Brothers (South Australian mining history).
  7. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1873-4: New Margaret, barque, 370 tons, built at Whitehaven in 1844, registered at London, owned by J.Alexander, master Capt.G.Wright, voyage Liverpool - India.