Dinapore
 Official Number
9898

From 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.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Dinapore
1851
 780
150.0 
31.5 
21.25 
3 
 
 
9 A1 

Sources :

  1. Mercantile Navy List 1860 gives port of registry as London, official number and signal letters KLFT, tonnage 790.
  2. Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury newspaper, 1st February 1860 and 6th February 1860 (reports 22 men who were in the longboat perished). Names the owner as Mr.Lindsay, M.P.
  3. Welsh Mariners website names the master at the time of the wreck as Capt.William Lilwall.
  4. Pierres Noires rocks (lat. 48° 18′ 40″ N, long. 4° 54′ 52″ W) off Cap Finistère now has a lighthouse, the approval for which was given in 1862.
Main Site Page
Maritime History Contents
Index of Workington and Harrington Sailing Ships