Inglewood

Official Number 63886

The Inglewood was an iron barque built by R.Williamson & Son at Harrington and launched in July 1875.

The Inglewood was reputedly a sister ship of the Mallsgate and Geltwood, and was owned initially by Fisher & Sprott of Liverpool and was registered at Workington. The vessel was sold back to her builders in 1889 and was managed by R.Williamson & Son until 1899. As with many of the large iron sailing ships, she was sold to Norwegian owners. In 1900 the Inglewood was registered at Laurvig (Larvik), Norway, owned by C.H.Neilson. On the 28th March 1908 the Inglewood exploded in Mandal harbour, killing her whole crew of 14. She was bound from New York to Stockholm with a naphtha cargo (see Blengfell for a similar accident).

Sources :

1. Lloyds Register of Shipping (1887) details from Gilbert Provost website (Signal letters:  PFWJ)
2. "Ships of West Cumberland" by Desmond G.Sythes, reprinted by the Friends of Whitehaven Museum, April 2006 - includes a photograph of  the Inglewood.
3. Mystic Seaport Library Ship Register Search has shipping register details from 1876 to 1900.
4. American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1879
5. National Maritime Museum has two photos of the Inglewood - negative nos.P3836 and P3837.
6. Photo of Inglewood courtesy of Malcolm Bland.
7. Norsk Skipsfartshistorisk Selskap (Norwegian Shipping History Society)