Watson

Official Number
none

The Watson was a brig built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co., launched on the 28th November 1837. On a voyage from Whitehaven to Cardiff the following year, the Watson was lost off the Wicklow coast on Christmas Eve, 1838.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Watson
1837
 164
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1838: Watson, 165 tons, belonging to the port of Whitehaven, master Capt.J.Stoup - no other information recorded.
  3. Irish Shipwrecks website, which locates the wreck site as the Arklow Bank., and states that the crew were saved.