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Ravenswood | Official Number
67890 |
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Ravenswood | Official Number
67890 |
The Ravenswood was an
iron barque built by W.H.Potter & Son at Liverpool, launched on the
22nd December 1877. She was owned by J.B.Sprott and registered at
Workington.
The Liverpool Mercury, Monday, 24th December 1877;
" SHIP LAUNCH - W.H.Potter & Son, on
Saturday last, launched from their shipbuilding and engineering works,
Queen's Dock, a fine new iron sailing vessel of the following
dimensions:- Length, 218 feet; beam, moulded, 35 feet 9 inches; depth
in hold, 20 feet 6 inches; tonnage, B.M., 1335 tons. The launch was
most successful, and as the vessel left the ways she was named the Ravenswood by Mrs.D.Brocklebank,
wife of the captain. The Ravenswood has
been built to the order of John Sprott, Esq., of Harrington, and will
form one of his line of trading vessels sailing between this port and
California. She has been built under special survey, and is classed
100 A at Lloyd's, is fitted with iron houses on deck, and all the most
recent improvements have been introduced in the building and fitting of
her out."
From newspaper reports it appears that the Ravenswood spent her early career under the command of Capt.D.F.Brocklebank in a triangular trade between the UK, Australia and California. She arrived at Sydney from Liverpool on the 27th Sept., 1879, at Queenstown (now Cobh, Ireland) on the 14th June 1880 from San Francisco; sailed from Newcastle, NSW, for San Francisco on the 19th April 1881; arrived at Glasgow from Dublin on the 20th January 1882; arrived at Melbourne from Glasgow about 5th June 1882; arrived off Queenstown 10th April 1883 from San Francisco, bound for Dublin; sailed from Newcastle NSW 16th November 1883, for San Francisco.
The Ravenswood was hulked
at Port of Spain in 1911.
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