Ladstock
 Official Number
74554

The Ladstock was an iron barque built by the Whitehaven Ship Building Co. in September 1876. The vessel was registered at Liverpool, and was initially owned by William Connell. She was sold to William Lowden & Co., also of Liverpool, in 1891, and then to Norwegian owners in 1905. The vessel was renamed Ebenezer, and she survived until 1911, when she capsized whilst undergoing repairs in Buenos Aires.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Ladstock
1876
 857
201.0 
32.2 
19.5 
3 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1887 (names owner as T.Connell, names master as Morton (appointed 1884), signal code flags QJKB).
  2. There are photos of this ship in the Multimedia Catalogue of the State Library of Victoria
  3. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  4. Norsk Skipsfartshistorisk Selskap (Norwegian Shipping History Society)
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