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Brilliant | Official Number
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The Brilliant was built at Workington by Michael Falcon, and was launched on the 27th August 1828.
Bound from Quebec bound for Rye with a timber cargo, the Brilliant, Captain Webb, was
wrecked in a storm at Etaples, North coast of France, on the 24th
November 1850. Of the ten crew, only the carpenter did not survive. The
wreck was entirely broken up.
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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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Brilliant
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1828
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240
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2
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Sources :
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"Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven
Museum (1985).
- Entry no.2 for 1847 in the Workington Shipping Register 1839-55
(Ref.TSR/3/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Whitehaven) - states that this
vessel was 240 tons, built at Workington in 1828 and was wrecked on the
N coast of France on the 24th November 1850.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1850-1: Brilliant,
brig, 240 tons, built at Workington in 1828, last coppered in 1847,
owned by Mordaunt, registered at Workington, master Capt.W.Furlong,
voyage London - Jamaica.
- Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury, Friday, 29th November 1850 (confirms the wreck was a 240 ton brig).