Arion

Official Number ?????

The Arion was a brig built at Workington in 1808 by William Wallace. In 1840 she was registered at Workington, owned by Miles Satterthwaite and commanded by Capt. John Satterthwaite.

In 1830 she was nearly wrecked whilst on passage from Belfast to Ayr, and was driven ashore at Whitehaven on the 16th February (see Source 2). Lloyds List reported that she was "not expected to be got off". However, it appears that she was, because ......

.... an 83 ton brig from Workington named Arion was nearly wrecked in early July 1846, when she struck the rocks at Langness Point, Isle of Man, whilst bound for Dublin in ballast under the command of Capt. James Gambles. The Castletown lifeboat was alerted after the brig sounded a gun and lit a torch to alert onlookers through the heavy fog. The lifeboat was rowed to the distressed vessel, and found that she was anchored close to rocks, which she had struck once. The brig had become lost in the fog, and had dropped two anchors when rocks were sighted close to. At high water the Arion was escorted by some of the lifeboat crew into Castletown harbour
 

Sources :

1. "A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven", from Steve Bulman's "Images of Cumbria" website
2. "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X (citing information from Lloyds List, 5th March 1830). Names master as Satterthwaite.
3. History of the closed Lifeboat Station at Castletown - citing from the Manx Sun newspaper