Perseverance

Official Number
15124

The Perseverance was a schooner or brig built at Workington by Falcon and Alexander, launched on the 2nd January 1839.

The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 8th January 1839, page 3;

" SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE - On the above day (Tuesday last), a handsome new schooner was launched from the building-yard of Messrs.Falcon and Alexander, at Workington, called the Perseverance, burthen 150 tons old measurement, 135 new, built for Mr.William Bowman, of the same place."

The Perseverance was described as a brig in the following year, when the owner is still named as Bowman and the master as Capt.Samuel Surridge.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Perseverance
1839
 150om, 135 nm
 
 
 
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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 - tonnage is given as 150 om, 138 nm.
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Perseverance, 138 tons, official number 15124, signal letters LRBG, registered at Workington.
  3. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Perseverance, brigantine, 130 tons, built 1839, registered at Maryport, owned by John Kendall, mastr mariner, of Maryport, commanded by Capt.R.Mounsey.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1880: Perseverance, hermaphrodite (brig), 108 tons, built at Workington in 1839, official number 15124, signal letters LRBG, registered at Maryport, owned by James Smith, of Maryport.