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Dinapore | Official Number
9898 |
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Dinapore | Official Number
9898 |
The Daily News, 21st April 1851, page 8;
" LAUNCH OF AN EAST INDIAMAN AT WORKINGTON.- Messrs.W.S.Lindsay
and Co., the well known East India merchants, have determined to build
a fleet of superior construction, to form a new line of ten packets between
London and Calcutta, at a cost of £150,000. Two of these vessels
have been launched from one of the yards on the Wear.The first, the Barrackpore,
was chartered by the government for the conveyance of troops, and arrived
at Corfu in 16 days - one of the quickest passages on record. The second
was also chartered by the government; and the third, the Dinapore,
was launched on Thursday, from the yard of Mr.Lamport, at Workington. The
Dinapore,
which is to be commanded by Captain J.D.Wilson, is as beautiful a specimen
of naval architecture as the combined skill and science of the nineteenth
century ever produced. Her measurement is 693 tons old, and about 780 new
measurement, keel 138, and extreme length 150 feet, breadth 31 feet 6 inches,
depth of hold 21 feet 3 inches, with 7 feet 3 inches 'twixt decks. She
is the largest vessel that has been launched in Cumberland, is classed
at Lloyd's as A1 for 9 years, owing to her flooring being of foreign oak,
but in every other respect she is equal to a first-class twelve years'
ship. Several vessels are in course of progress at Workington. Mr.Lamport
has one of about 600 tons for John Atkin, Esq., of Liverpool, and partners;
and the keel is ready for another of Messrs.Lindsay's line, which is to
be 760 tons old and about 900 tons new measurement. Messrs.Piele, Scott
and Co. intend launching on the 15th proximo a large vessel about 900 tons,
for Messrs.Bushby, of Liverpool; they are also pushing forward the largest
of the lot for Messrs.Potter Brothers, of Liverpool, which is fastened
throughout with copper bolts, and will be classed A1 for 15 years. - Carlisle
Patriot"
Of the other vessels mentioned in this report, one appears to be the Sea Horse, launched by Peile, Scott & Co. in November, 1851, and another the Clymene, launched by Peile, Scott & Co. in May 1851. The vessel being constructed by Charles Lamport was the Cambalu, also launched in November, 1851.
The Dinapore was wrecked on the Pierres Noires rocks off Le Conquet, Brittany, on the night of 26th January 1860. She had left Cardiff on the 14th January, bound for Aden with a coal cargo. The mate and nine other crew were picked up in the vessel's pinnace by a Conquet pilot. The master, his wife, the ship's doctor, servant and twenty seamen escaped in the ship's longboat, but were not found.
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