Planter

Official Number
13104

The Planter was a brig built at Harrington by Key, Carr & Co. in 1820.

The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware’s Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 21st February 1860, page ;

“ The brig Planter, Borrowdale, of Whitehaven, from Cardiff (coals) came on shore at Llansantffraid at three o’clock this afternoon; the crew landed through a heavy sea in the vessel’s boat; the master was much exhausted, having been overboard. The Planter, it is feared, will become a total wreck; the cargo may be saved.”

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Planter
1820
233
 
 
 
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985). States that the vessel was lost in 1860.
  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 - names builder as James Carr, owned by Richard Whiteside & others, master Capt.John Kirk.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1851 - owned by Whiteside, master Capt.J.Reid.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Planter, 197 tons, official number 13104, flag code LFPN, registered at Whitehaven.