Langdale
Official Number
23094

The Langdale was a barque built by Charles Lamport at Workington in 1854.

From the Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 16th May, 1854, page 5:

" On Saturday last, a splendid new barque, of 900 tons, was launched from the Lower Building Yard of Chas.Lamport, Esq., at Workington. She is called the Langdale, was built for an eminent Liverpool firm, and intended for the Eastern trade.....She has a female figurehead, an elliptic stern, with a poop quarter deck, and is coppered and copper-fastened throughout. "
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Langdale
1854
 832
 
 
 
 3
 Female
Elliptic
 

Sources :

  1. Mercantile Navy List 1857 gives official number, signal letters NQFM, vessel registered at Liverpool, 832 tons.
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