Martin

Official Number
none

The Martin was a brig built at Workington in 1825. 

The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 11th January 1825, page 3;

" Launched on Saturday last from the building yard of Thos.Peile & Co., at Workington, a fine, new copper-bottomed vessel of 210 tons register (burthen about 450 tons) called the Plata, built for Messrs.W.Younghusband & Co., Whitehaven, and intended for the South America trade - also launched on the same day at Workington, from the building yard of Mr.William Wallace, a fine copper-bottomed vessel of 200 tons register, called the Martin, built for Messrs.Thomas Martin & Co. Both vessels went off in grand style within a few moments of each other, to the gratification of a large and respectable number of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, who enjoyed the pleasing scene the more for the remarkably fine weather."

The Martin was wrecked in the Baltic on the 8th June 1841.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Martin
1825
 200
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Entry no.6 for 1839 in the Workington Shipping Register 1839-55 (Ref.TSR/3/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Whitehaven) - states that this vessel was a 200 ton brig, was built at Workington in 1825 and was wrecked in the Baltic on the 8th June 1841.
  2. "A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840", by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven: Martin, brig, 200 tons, registered at Workington, owned by Michael Falcon & others, master Capt.William Brown.