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Official Number
28611 |
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Official Number
28611 |
The Castlehow was a barque built by Thomas Williamson at Harrington. She was completed in April 1860 and registered at Liverpool on the 26th May 1860 as Castleton, yet is shown in Lloyds Register of Shipping 1861 as Castlehow. Since at that time British ships were not allowed to change their name it seems that this was the correction of a transcription error.
Launch report from the Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 10th April, 1860, page 5:
" Launch at Harrington - On the morning of Thursday last, a beautiful new clipper-built barque, which was named the Castlehow, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs.R.Williamson and Son, Harrington, near this town. The Castlehow has been built under survey, having been superintended during her construction by Capt.Elliot, of Harrington. She will class A1 for 14 years, and is 260 tons register and 288 tons builders' measurement. Messrs.Nelson, Ismay & Co., merchants, of Liverpool, are the purchasers of the Castlehow, and intend her for the Mazatlan trade. The vessel is, as we need hardly say, of first class build and materials, and will, we trust, justify the expectations which have been formed regarding her fast sailing qualities, &c."The partnership of Nelson and Ismay was dissolved in 1863, and the Castlehow then came under the ownership of Thomas Henry Ismay (who, in 1868, became owner of the White Star Line). In 1872 the Castlehow was sold to Joseph Davidson, of Harrington, then was sold again in 1889 to Hugh McDowell, of Belfast.
From Lloyds List (1892) :
(while at Barbados Roads was in collision with Norwegian barque Lovspring,
both receiving damage above the waterline)
14th January : sailed Barbados for Trinidad (Capt.Ossinger)
17th January : arrived Trinidad
16th April : arrived Plymouth from Trinidad, for stores, bound
for Rotterdam
23th April : arrived Nieuwe Waterweg (Rotterdam) from Trinidad
(Capt.Ossinger)
9th May : sailed for Cardiff (Capt. Higgins)
16th May : arrived Cardiff (alleged that heavily damaged by striking
dock wall, but denied by owners).
30th May : sailed for Trinidad (Capt. Higgins)
26th July : arrived Trinidad
From "The Times", Tuesday, 13th September, 1892, page 4 :
"TRINIDAD,12th.-British barque Castlehow has foundered off this coast. Part of the crew saved and landed here."
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