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Camertonian | Official Number
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The Camertonian was a full-rigged ship built at Workington by Jonathan Fell (of Peile, Scott & Co.) in 1848. She traded from Liverpool to Calcutta and to China. The Camertonian foundered in a gale off the Sand Heads, Calcutta, on the 13th September, 1854.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday,
22nd August 1848, page 3;
" A handsome new ship of 550 tons, built expressly for Mr.Isaac
Scott, of the Brow Top, Workington, was on Friday last launched from the
building-yard of Messrs.Peile, Scott, & Co., at that port. This splendid
vessel was christened by Joseph Bushby, Esq., who named her the Camertonian,
as she majestically moved from the berth on which she had been constructed
into her destined element. This magnificent ship stands A1 at Lloyd's,
London, for 12 years."
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday,
7th November 1854, page 8;
" We briefly stated last week the loss of the Camertonian,
Kirkpatrick, at the Sand Heads, Calcutta, on the 13th September. We since
learn from the Bengal Hurkara, dated the 18th of September, that Capt.Kirkpatrick,
who perished along with most of his crew, was anxious to obtain a pilot,
and when signalised from the light-ship, he replied that he had no boat
fit for the service, and was told to stand to the southward until half-flood,
and then steer N.W. by N. for Saugar, and anchor in seven fathoms of water.
She accordingly stood off, but came a second time for a pilot, when a like
order was repeated, and she went again to the S.E. The ship bore up a third
time at 5.30. P.M., when the crew hailed the Hope light-ship, reporting
she had six feet of water in her hold, and was fast sinking. Immediately
after this the ship brought up, and anchored close to the Hope, and in
twenty minutes after went down. Two men, W.Daglish, carpenter, and Henry
Woodland, reached the Hope light-ship by swimming. The following morning
at daylight two men were seen clinging to the wreck. Lines and buoys were
veered from the Hope in hopes the men might lay hold of them, as the gale
precluded the boats being sent, but we regret to say they had not the least
chance. Evening set in, and the next morning they had disappeared; no doubt
they had fallen off through exhaustion and perished. "The Camertonian
had left Liverpool under the command of Capt.Kirkpatrick on the 26th May.
The list of dead was given as : Capt.Kirkpatrick; Robinson, of Orkney Islands,
chief mate; Scott Robinson, his brother, ordinary seaman; Thomas Twentyman,
of Woking, apprentice; John Henry Reynolds, of Liverpool, apprentice; Joseph
Smith, of Holland, steward; William Smith, of Aberdeen, seaman; Abraham
Mason, of Exeter, seaman; Peter Bar, of Glasgow, seaman; Charles Mitchell,
of Dublin, seaman; John Thomson, of Prussia, seaman; and three Dutchmen.
Other than the two men who swam to the Hope light vessel, named as W.Daylish,
carpenter, and Henry Woodland, a further survivor was Robert Simpson, who
landed at the new Light House at Saugor on the morning after the wreck.
He and two others had escaped in a small boat, but the other two men had
been washed away during the night.
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