Maiden Queen

Official Number
29170

The Cumberland Pacquet, Tuesday 24th July 1860, page 5;

" SHIP LAUNCH AT HARRINGTON - On Friday last, a beautiful clipper-built ship was launched from the building-yard of Messrs.Williamson and Son, at Harrington. The ship, as she gracefully glided from the stocks into the sea, was named the Maiden Queen ........... The Maiden Queen is classed A1 at Lloyd's for fourteen years. Her tonnage is 853 63-94ths, builder's measurement, and 814 tons register; and she is built with full poop decks and top-gallant forecastle."

The Maiden Queen was a full-rigged ship, one of two built by the firm of R.Williamson & Son at Harrington for the Liverpool/Whitehaven firm of Thomas & John Brocklebank (see also Mindanao). The Maiden Queen traded for the Brocklebank Line for 14 years, to China in her early years, under Capts.Smith (until 1869), Ray and Forsyth.

The Maiden Queen was sold to German owners in about 1874. Renamed Betty, she was hulked at Santos in 1892.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Maiden Queen
1860
814 
178.0 
32.3 
21.1 
3
 
 
A1 for 14 years, Special Survey

Sources :

  1. "From Cumberland to Cape Horn" by D.Hollett.
  2. "Brocklebanks 1770-1950, Volume 1" by John Frederic Gibson (1953).
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1868: Maiden Queen, 815 tons, official number 29170, signal letters QDMP, owned by Thomas & Ralph Brocklebank, of Liverpool, and registered at that port.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1875: Maiden Queen, ship, 815 tons, built at Harrington in 1860, official number 29170, signal letters QDMP, owned by Albrecht F.Eggers, of 3 Cook Street, Liverpool, and registered at that port.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1889-90: Betty (ex-Maiden Queen), barque, 815 grt, 798 nrt, built by R.Williamson & Son at Harrington in July 1860, owned by E.Burchard, registered at Rostock.