General Gascoyne
 Official Number
none

From the "Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser", Tuesday, 4th January 1831

"On the 1st of January, was launched from the building yard of Messrs.T.Peile and Co. a large vessel (of ship rigg) called the General Gascoyne, of the burthen of 319 tons registered, built for Mr.Isaac Fisher, and intended for the West Indiia trade."
The General Gascoyne was built at Workington and became a licensed India ship (licensed to the East India Company, which had lost its monopoly on trade to India in 1813 and to China in 1833). She was wrecked at Kedgeree, in the Hooghly river, Calcutta, on the 20th May 1833 (see Source 1).
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
General Gascoyne
1831
319 
 
 
 
3
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Ships of the East India Company" by Rowan Hackman, World Ship Society, 2001.
  2. This vessel is not listed in "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985).
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