Hardings

Official Number
none

The Hardings was a brig built of oak and teak at Workington in 1828. Possibly she was built to replace the Harding, a brig lost in the previous year. She was registered at Whitehaven and worked in the trade to Brazil until her loss in 1836.

The Hardings, of Workington, Capt.Thornton, was wrecked on Sunday, 24th January 1836. She was bound from Stranraer to Liverpool in ballast, and having lost her sails in a storm, she drifted past the entrance of Whitehaven harbour and struck near the shipyards, within shouting distance of the shore. A line was floated from the shore and two men were saved by this means, but then the vessel canted towards the sea and the remaining eleven crew were swept overboard. Ten of these men were drowned, including the master and mate, but the carpenter was saved. The vessel drifted onto rocks between William Pitt and Redness Point, where she broke up.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Hardings
1828
255
 
 
 
2
 
 
10 years A1

Sources :

  1. Not listed in "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985).
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping  (Underwriters' Green Book) 1829: Hardings, brig, 255 tons, master J.Gibson, built of oak and teak at Workington 1828, voyage Liverpool- Rio de Janeiro, owned by J.Harding, classed 10 A1.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1835-6: Hardings, brig, 256 tons, master Thornton, built Workington 1828, reg.Whitehaven, voyage London-Bahia, owned by Hardings.
  4. Wreck reported in the Cumberland Pacquet, Tuesday, 26th January 1836 - there were many casualties on the Cumberland coast, and the Musgrave was also lost in the same storm.