Clifton

Official Number none

Launch report from the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, Tuesday, 22nd February 1825;

" On Saturday last was launched from the building yard of Mr.William Wallace, at Workington, a fine, new copper-bottomed ship, called the Clifton, of 316 tons register, built for Capt.Joseph Bushby, and intended for the Quebec trade - a new vessel of 300 tons register, for the same trade, was contracted for at the building yard of Messrs.Thomas Peile and Co., Workington, on Thursday last."

NB: Another vessel named Clifton was built at Harrington.

Sources :

1. "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985) - launched 19th Feb.,1825.
   
2. "Shipbuilding at Maryport - a Checklist", published by the Friends of Whitehaven Museum, 1989 - erroneously states that the vessel was built at Maryport, but gives full details of wreck - reports that the Clifton was found in a damaged condition before her wreck by the vessel Actress.
3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1826 (Underwriters' Green Book): ship, 314 tons, owned by Bushby & Co.
4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1840-41: barque, 314 tons, built Workington in 1825, registered at Glasgow and owned by Bogle & Co., masters named as C.G.Hill and Curlingson - annotated "Wrecked".
5. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X, citing from Lloyds List - gives date as the 12th January, and the voyage as Dalhousie to Lancaster.
6. Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury, 15th January 1841, citing a report from Whitehaven on the 12th January. Clifton, North America for Glasson Dock, wrecked near Ravenglass and crew saved.