Walton Muncaster
 Official Number
24910

The Walton Muncaster was a barque built at Whitehaven, launched 25th June 1850 by Lumley Kennedy & Co. She was owned at Whitehaven until lost in her seventh year.

The Walton Muncaster was lost towards the end of June, 1857, when she drifted onto a reef 40 miles N of Caldera, after leaving Chanaral, Chile. A boat carrying the master's wife, ten seamen and a customs officer to the shore capsized, drowning all except the customs officer. The master, Capt. Mounsey, was reported to be attempting to recover what goods were salvable from the wreck (see Source 3).
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Walton Muncaster
1850
413
 
 
 
3
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1857 gives port of registry as Whitehaven, official number, signal code PCSN, 413 tons.
  3. The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 25th August 1857, page 8.
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