Langdale

Official Number
23094

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. "

The newspaper had made an error, the Langdale was a ship. She was launched on the 13th May 1854 for Rathbone Brothers, of Liverpool, at which port she was registered. She entered the trade to China, under the command of Capt.J.Brown, later moving into the India trade. On the 17th September 1868 the Langdale caught fire whilst loading a cargo of coal at Porthcawl, for Bombay. She was burnt to the water's edge and nothing was saved from the vessel.

Other ships built by Lamport for Rathbone Brothers included the Duchess of Lancaster, Skiddaw and Scawfell.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Langdale
1854
 832
170.0 
33.9 
21.0 
 3
 Female
Elliptic
9 years A1 

Sources :

  1. Mercantile Navy List 1857 gives official number, signal letters NQFM, vessel registered at Liverpool, 832 tons.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1855-6: Langdale, ship, 906 tons, owned by Rathbone, registered at Liverpool, master J.Brown, voyage Workington - China.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1868-9: Langdale, ship, 832 tons, owned by Rathbone, registered at Liverpool, master J.Brown - annotated "Burnt".
  4. Loss reported in the Liverpool Mercury newspaper, Saturday, 19th September, 1868.