Nereides

Official Number
none

The Nereides was a ship built at Workington in 1846.

The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 13th October 1846,  page 3:

"  On Wednesday last a splendid new ship of 540 tons register was launched from the building yard of Peile, Scott & Co., Workington, called the Nereides. She was built expressly for Joseph Bushby, Esq., of Liverpool, for the eastern trade, and will be commanded by Captain John Hoodless, of Workington. She is a beautiful model, and reflects no little credit upon her draftsman, Mr.Fell, the manager of the yard, whether for the model or for the superior workmanship displayed. She is coppered and copper-fastened to the upper part of the bends, has half-poop and forecastle, and bound with Fell's patent binding, and may justly rank amongst the best and most beautiful vessels ever launched in Cumberland."

The Nereides was involved in the trade from Liverpool to India, principally Calcutta. She was wrecked there in a hurricane on the 14th May 1852, at Sandheads. Most of her crew were drowned, including the master, Capt.Michael. A pilot, the first mate and four other men survived and were found on the Sunderbund islands. One newspaper reported that two of the survivors, near starvation, had resorted to eating parts of the putrefying body of a dead shipmate.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Nereides
1846
 466
 
 
 
3
 
 
12 years, A1. 

Sources :

  1. Entry no.9 for 1846 in the Workington Shipping Register 1839-55 (Ref.TSR/3/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Whitehaven) - Nereides, ship, 530 tons, built at Workington in 1846. Gives the date of wreck but no location.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1847-8: Nereids, ship, yellow-metalled in 1846, 466 tons, owned by Bushby & Co., registered at Workington, master Capt.Hoodless, voyage Workington - India.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1848-9: Nereids, ship, yellow-metalled in 1849, 466 tons, owned by Bushby & Co., registered at Workington, master Capt.Hoodless, voyage Liverpool - Calcutta.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1849-50: Nereids, ship, yellow-metalled in 1849, 466 tons, owned by Bushby & Co., registered at Workington, voyage Liverpool - Calcutta (no captain named).
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1850-1: Nereids, ship, yellow-metalled in 1849, 466 tons, owned by Bushby & Co., registered at Workington, voyage Liverpool - Calcutta (no captain named).
  6. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1851-2: Nereids, ship, yellow-metalled in 1851, 466 tons, owned by Bushby & Co., registered at Workington, master Capt.Mecquels, voyage Liverpool - Calcutta. The same data appeared in the following year The vessel was not listed in later editions of Lloyd's Register.
  7. Wreck reported in the Morning Post (London newspaper) 17th July 1852, page 8, and in Allen's Indian Mail, Vo.10 (1852), page 416 (citing the Hurkuru newspaper, 2nd June).