Nestor

Official Number 32899

The Nestor was brig built at Harrington in 1823 by Thomas Peile.

The Quebec Gazette reported on the 12th September 1829 that the brig Nestor of Workington, Capt.Mordaff, had arrived from Antwerp (dep. 28th July) in ballast. She cleared Quebec for London on the 6th October (Source 3).

In April 1839 the Nestor sailed from Workington for Quebec under the command of Capt.Abraham Clarke, returning to Dundalk in August 1839. In 1840 the Nestor was registered at Workington, Capt.Clarke was still listed as master and the owners were named as Shadrach Moordaff & Co. (see Source 1).

The Nestor was in the sole ownership of Geo.Hood in 1847 (Source 3).

The Nestor, under the command of Capt.Fox, left Maryport on the 7th September 1853 with a coal cargo, bound for Quebec. She arrived on the 13th November, delayed by persistent westerlies, late in the season as ice was beginning to form in the St.Lawrence. The brig departed on the 22nd November, bound for Fleetwood, but got caught in heavy ice in the river, along with many other vessels. On the 5th December it was reported that the Nestor had sunk near the Water Lily on Hare Island reef. A week later the brig was reported as a total wreck, her master being safe at Riviere du Loup. The wreck of the Nestor was reported to have been sold,  "as she lies" on Hare Island, for £270 in the Quebec Gazette in April 1854.

The sale of the Nestor seems to have been recorded only in 1855,  her new Quebec owner being named as John Stewart of "Pt.Ca". Since further shares were sold in 1855 it is probable that the Nestor was repaired and continued her career in Canada (Source 3). The Canadian Ship Heritage Database reports only that the brig was re-registered at the Port of New Carlisle, Quebec, on the 20th August, 1855.

In 1857 it was reported back in Cumberland that the Nestor of Port Carlisle, Capt.Stewart, Port Carlisle for Miramichi, had been lost on Prince Edward Island on the 28th October 1857, crew saved (see Source 4).
 

Sources :

1. "A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven", from Steve Bulman's "Images of Cumbria" website
2. The Quebec Gazette, Saturday, 15th April 1854 (from correspondence from Harry Dodsworth & Derek Ellwood, also citing from the Montreal Gazette, on Rootsweb Cumberland-L List)
3. Information from David R Walker.
4. The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 24th November 1857, page 8.