Coniston

Official Number
12735

The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 3rd February, 1857, page 4;

" On Tuesday last a fine new barque, of 228 tons O.M., was launched from the yard of Mr.C.Lamport of Workington. As she left the stocks the beautiful craft received the cognomen of Coniston, after the locality of that name. This barque was built for Messrs.Lamport and Holt of Liverpool, and is intended for the Africa trade."

The Coniston was a small barque launched on the 27th January 1857, for Lamport and Holt, and was intended for the trade to Port Natal. She was the fourth vessel to have been built at Workington for this Liverpool company.The Glaramara followed her from the same shipyard five months later.

The Coniston left Hong Kong bound for Swatow with a rice cargo on the 28th June 1865. She was believed to have foundered with all hands in a typhoon shortly after her departure. 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Coniston
1857
 204
 109.3
22 .1
14.3
 3
 
 
10 years A1 

Sources :

  1. Launch report in the Liverpool Mercury, Monday, 2nd February 1857.
  2. The Ships List Fleet History - Lamport & Holt Line
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1864: Coniston, 203 tons, official number 12735, signal letters LDBW, registered at Liverpool.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1865-6: Coniston, barque, 204 tons, registered at Liverpool, owned by Lamport, master Hopson - annotated "wrecked".
  5. Lloyd's List Index for 1865 and Lloyd's List, 15th August, 1865 (col.32).
  6. Wreck confirmed in the Caledonian Mercury, Saturday, 9th November 1865.
  7. Welsh Mariners website names Capt.Alfred Hopson and mate John Hodgson drowned 30th June 1865 after the Coniston had foundered on the 28th June.