Valdivia

Official Number
7042

The Valdivia was a full-rigged ship built by Lumley Kennedy & Co. at Whitehaven and launched on the 27th October 1855. She was registered at Liverpool in 1860 but in 1875 she was owned by King of Bristol.

The Valdivia was posted "Missing" in April 1884, not having been heard of since leaving Old Calabar on the 26th November 1883, bound for Falmouth with a cargo of palm nut kernels, under Capt.Roach. Her small boat was found at the end of May floating 30 miles SSW of Ballycotton, and by her appearance was judged to have been adrift for some considerable time.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Valdivia
1855
 356
148.3 
26.0 
16.0 
3 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1868: Valdivia, 395 tons, official number 7042, signal letters JRHL, registered at Liverpool, owned by Benjamin Christopher Nicholson, of Liverpool.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1875: Valdivia, barque, 356 tons, built at Whitehaven in 1855, official number 7042, signal letters JRHL, registered at Bristol, owned by William Thomas Poole King, of Bristol.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1880: Valdivia, barque, 356 tons, built at Whitehaven in 1855, official number 7042, signal letters JRHL, registered at Bristol, owned by Mervyn H.King, of Redcliff Wharf, Bristol.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4: Valdivia, barque, 395 grt, 356 nrt, built at Whitehaven in 1855, official number 7042, owned by R.& W.King, registered at Bristol.
  6. Loss reported in the Times newspaper, 17th April 1884, page 7 and 28th May 1884, page 5.