Nimble

Official Number 13161

The Nimble was a schooner built at Whitehaven by William Bowes & Son. She was launched on the 29th March 1819. The Nimble was owned and registered at Whitehaven throughout her career.

The Nimble went missing in October 1870 after sailing from Cardiff, bound for Dublin with a coal cargo. She may have sunk between Bardsey Island and Porth Nigwl, since her signboard drifted ashore there.

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 - Nimble, registered at Whitehaven, owned by Thomas Hammond & others, commanded by Capt.Jacob Caldbeck.
   
3. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Nimble, 78 tons, official number 13161, port of registry Whitehaven.
4. Clayton's Register of Shipping, 1865: Nimble, 79 tons, schooner, built 1819, registered at Whitehaven, owned by John Roper, master mariner, of Whitehaven, commanded by Capt.Lindall.
5. Mercantile Navy List 1870: Nimble, 67 tons, official number 13161, signal letters LFTJ, port of registry Whitehaven, owned by John Harrison, of Whitehaven.
   
6. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub.Lloyd's Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X (citing BoT Wreck Returns for 1870) - states that vessel was lost with four crew, and had sailed from Cardiff.
7. Shipwrecks around Rhiw, Aberdaron and Bardsey - citing from the Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald, 29th October 1870.
8. A cutting from a Whitehaven newspaper of October 1870, describing the loss of the Capella, names the crew lost with the Nimble as Fitzsimmons (master), of Whitehaven, and M'Guire (mate), who left a wife and five children. It reported that the vessel sailed from Newport on the 10th October.

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