 |
Iris | Official Number
none
|
The Iris was a brig built at Workington by Thomas Peile in 1826.
In 1840 she was registered at Harrington and was owned by William Taggart
& Co., the master named as John Taggart.
The Iris made the following voyages in 1836, under the command
of Capt.William Taggart :
-
Departed Harrington for Dublin on 5th July 1836, arrived Workington
16th July 1836
-
Departed Workington for Dublin 27th July 1836, arrived Workington
9th August 1836
-
Departed Workington for Dublin 23rd August 1836, arrived Harrington
2nd September 1836
-
Departed Harrington for Dublin 9th September 1836, arrived Workington
20th September 1836
-
Departed Workington for Ballybriggan 9th October 1836, arrived
Harrington 20th October 1836
-
Departed Harrington for Dublin 11th November1836, arrived Harrington
7th December 1836
-
Departed Harrington for Dublin 12th December1836, arrived Workington
2nd January 1837
The Iris foundered after collision at night with the mail steamer Stork, near the Copeland Islands whilst
entering Belfast Lough, on passage from Harrington, on the 27th October
1854. She was carrying coal and was under the command of
Capt.M'Mulloon, with a crew of two men and a boy, all of whom were
saved.
|
Name
|
Year Built
|
Gross Tons
|
Length (feet)
|
Breadth (feet)
|
Depth (feet)
|
Masts
|
Figurehead
|
Stern
|
Lloyd's Classn.
|
|
Iris
|
1826
|
105 om, 92nm
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
Sources :
-
"A List Of The Cumberland
Shipping, Corrected To February 1840", by William Sawyers, Comptroller
Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven.
-
1836 voyage details posted on Rootsweb Cumberland-L List.
- Loss listed in "Shipwreck Index of Ireland" by Richard and Bridget Larn (pub.Lloyd's
Register-Fairplay, 2002), ISBN 1 900839 03 02 - citing from Admiralty Wreck
Returns.
- Loss also reported in the Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Tuesday, 31st October 1854.