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Walton Muncaster
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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 and operated initially in the trade to
India. She was lost in her seventh year, after leaving the Chilean port
of Chanaral.
<>The Walton Muncaster was lost on the 27th 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 4). Capt.John Carnell Beer
and Lewis Whiteway were awarded the BoT Silver Medal for saving the
lives of several of the crew of the Walton Muncaster (see Source 5). Joseph Tregose, a seaman on the Dennis Brundrit, was also awarded a BoT Silver Medal for the same reason. The BoT awarded £10 to the widow of the mate of the Dennis Brundrit, Robert Furnice, who lost his life during the rescue. The BoT also awarded a telescope to Capt.Boster, of the Hamburg barque, Helene, and £10 to each of the seamen who assisted him by manning his ship's boat during the rescue (see Source 6).<>
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Walton Muncaster
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1850
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413 nm
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3
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13 years A1.
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Sources :
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"Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum
(1984).
- Lloyd's
Register of Shipping 1851-2: barque, 364 tons (om), 413 tons (nm),
yellow-metalled in 1850, registered at Whitehaven, owned by Steele
& Co., master Capt.J.Steele, voyage Liverpool - East Indies.
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Mercantile Navy List 1857 gives port of registry as Whitehaven, official
number, signal code PCSN, 413 tons.
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The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 25th August 1857,
page 8.
- Mercantile Navy List & Maritime Directory 1860. NB. The Dennis Brundrit was a ship belonging to Runcorn.
- The Mercantile Marine Magazine and Nautical Record, Volume 5, Jan.-Dec.1858 (from Google Books).