Devock Water

Official Number
84186

The Devock Water was an iron barque built by the Whitehaven Ship Building Company and launched on the 25th November 1881 for Jackson & Metcalf of Liverpool. From newspaper reports it appears that her first voyage was started in January 1882, when she cleared from Newport, Wales, bound for Newcastle, NSW, Australia. She sailed from Newcastle on the 31st May 1882, bound for San Francisco, with a coal cargo (1494 tons). She made the passage in 66 days and docked at Harrison Street, San Francisco, on the 10th August.

The Devock Water, Capt.Roberts, sailed from San Francisco for Cape Town, with wheat, flour etc., on the 20th Sept.1882, and was spoken on the 1st October in lat.12N, long. 122W (in the Pacific, west of Mexico). That was the last that was seen of her. She was posted "Missing" in April 1883.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Devock Water
1881
1056
216.0 
34.4 
20.3 
3 
 
 
100 years A1, Special Survey 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984).
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4: Devock Water,  iron barque, 1056 gross, 1027 net tons, owned by Jackson & Metcalf, registered at Liverpool, master Capt.R.G.Roberts, official number 84186, signal letters WFNT - entry annotated "Missing".
  3. Newspaper reports from the Daily Alta California, 6th and 11th August, 17th and 21st September 1882.
  4. Reported "Missing" in Bristol Mercury newspaper, 30th April 1883.