Moss Trooper

Official Number
51211

The Moss Trooper was a barque built at Workington by Jonathan Fell in 1864. She was registered and owned at Workington.

On the 11th June 1869 the Moss Trooper, Capt.McKenzie, arrived at Wellington, New Zealand, after a 178 day passage from London (departed 15th December), carrying general merchandise and four passengers. The slow passage was attributed to the way the cargo was stowed, with lack of deadweight in the vessel's bottom, preventing her carrying too much sail.

The Moss Trooper, Capt.P.Colzon, on passage from Liverpool to Valparaiso, Chile, caught fire (spontaneous combustion of the coal cargo) and was abandoned S of the Falkland Islands on the 20th October 1874. The crew were taken off by the Fairy and landed at Port Stanley, there being no casualties. The vessel was owned by Ismay, Imrie & Co., of London, and was still registered at Workington.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Moss Trooper
1864
 510
143.2
28.4
18.1
 3
 
 
13 years A1, Special Survey 

Sources :

  1. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1864-5 (Supplement): Mosstrooper, barque, 510 tons, built by Fell at Workington in September 1864, registered at Workington, owned by J.Elliott, master Capt.J.McKenzie, voyage Liverpool - Coquimbo.
  2. Mystic Seaport Library Ship Register Search has shipping register details for 1868, 1870 and 1872.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Moss Trooper, 510 tons, official number 51211, signal letters WMJB, registered at Workington, owned by John Elliot, of Workigton.
  4. Arrival of the Moss Trooper, from the the Wellington Independent newspaper, 12th June 1869.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1874-5: Moss Trooper, barque, 510 tons, built by Fell at Workington in September 1864, official number 51211, signal letters WMJB, registered at Workington, owned by Ismay & Co., master Capt.Corlyon.
  6. Buques perdidos en el area de las Islas Malvinas
  7. Merchant Ships - Foundered and Missing, 1st January 1873 to 16th May 1880 (Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, 1880).
  8. Loss reported in the Times, Friday, 30th October, 1874, page 9.