Trafalgar

Official Number
1780

The Trafalgar was a brig or snow built by Wilton Wood at Workington, launched on the 3rd September 1807. She was owned for most of her career in Maryport.

In May 1833 the Trafalgar, of Mary Port, under the command of Capt.Louther Christopherson, landed five passengers from Limerick at St.John, New Brunswick. The following year she landed 163 immigrants from Galway at the same port.

In January 1881 the Trafalgar (described as a 191 ton brig, of Maryport), under the command of Captain Felix Vermuelen, bound from Sunderland for Jersey with 340 tons of coal, was stranded and abandoned in Yarmouth Roads. However, the master found a steam tug to tow her off, and the vessel eventually arrived in the Channel Islands. Capt.Vermuelen made a deposition that he had had to leave some of the crew behind in the Sailors' Home at Yarmouth.

The Trafalgar had disappeared from Lloyd's Register by 1887.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Trafalgar
1807
 201
 
 
  
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985)
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Shipowners' Red Book) 1808-9: Trafalgar, snow, 201 tons, built at Workington in 1807, owned by T.Piele (her master) and others, voyage Liverpool - Halifax.
  3. Ships List for 1833 and 1834 crew and passenger lists.
  4. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Traflagar, brig, 198 tons, built 1807, registered at Maryport, owned by William Ritson, shipbuilder, of Maryport, commanded by Capt.H.Lightbody.
  5. Mercantile Navy List 1868: Trafalgar, 199 tons, official number 1780, signal letters HLKQ, owned by William Ostle, vessel registered at Maryport.
  6. Mercantile Navy List 1880: Trafalgar, brig, 191 tons, built at Workington in 1807, official number 1780, signal letters HLKQ, owned by John Curwen, vessel registered at Maryport.
  7. Stranding at Yarmouth in 1881 reported in the Star newspaper (Saint Peter Port, Guernsey), Tuesday, 1st February 1881.
  8. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4: Trafalgar, brig, 191 tons, built at Workington in 1807, official number 1780, signal letters HLKQ, owned by J.McCully, commanded by Capt.W.Richardson.