Quebec Packet

Official Number
3387

The Quebec Packet was a brig built at Harrington by James Carr in 1820. She spent the first ten years of her career in the trade to the St.Lawrence, mostly from either Liverpool or Limerick, under the command of Capt.John Ditchburn.

The Quebec Packet was wrecked against the outer pier at Maryport on the 21st December 1882. She was travelling from Belfast to Maryport with a cargo of wheat and iron ore, under the command of Capt.W.Shilton, her Maryport owner. At this time the brig was registered at Workington. Four crew and one passenger were aboard at the time of the wreck.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Quebec Packet
1820
 167 om, 154 nm
 
 
 
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985) records only one vessel of this name built at Harrington, launched in 1820 by James Carr, 154 tons.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Shipowners' Red Book) 1821-2: Quebec Packet, brig, 167 tons, built 1820 at Harrington, owned and commanded by Capt.Ditchburn, voyage Cork - Quebec.
  3. "A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840", by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven: Quebec Packet, brig, 167 tons om, 154 tons nm, registered at Harrington, owned by John Ditchburn and others, master Capt.John Pearce.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Quebec Packet, 154 tons, official number 3387, flag code HTCR, registered at Workington.
    5. <>
  5. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Quebec Packet, brig, 149 tons, built 1820, registered at Workington, owned by Capt.W.Cottier, her master, of Harrington.
  6. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Quebec Packet, 154 tons, official number 3387, flag code HTCR, registered at Workington, owned by William Cottier, of Harrington.
  7. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1880-1: Quebec Packet, brig, 124 tons, built 1829 at Harrington, owned by W.Shilton, registered at Workington, master Capt.W.Cottier.
  8. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub.Lloyd's Register (2000), ISBN 1 900839 61 X - gives tonnage as 124 tons, but an incorrect build date of 1829, presumably taken from Lloyd's Register, which is also incorrect.