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Volunteer | Official Number
28811 |
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Volunteer | Official Number
28811 |
The Volunteer was a ship built at Workington, launched on the 18th August 1860 by the Harrington & Workington Shipbuilding & Ropemaking Co. She was initially owned by Bushby & Edwards of Liverpool, one of a series of Workington-built clippers owned by them.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tues.,
21st August 1860, page 5;
" SHIP LAUNCH AT WORKINGTON - On Saturday morning, a magnificent
new ship was launched from the inner yard of the Harrington and Workington
Shipbuilding Company, at Workington, and christened the Volunteer,
by Miss Curwen, of Workington Hall, with the usual ceremony. The bow of
this fine vessel was appropriately ornamented with a full-length figure
of an artillery volunteer in uniform, by Brooker; and the stern is adorned
with suitable and characteristic carved work by the same justly celebrated
local artist. The Volunteer has been built under cover for Messrs.Bushby
and Edwards, of Liverpool, and is classified A1 at Lloyd's for 14 years,
registering 855 tons, or 783 new measurement; and we are pursuaded will
prove second to none of the many clippers draughted by Mr.Fell, and launched
for Messrs.Bushby from the same yard. The dimensions are:- Length, 184
feet; extreme breadth, 31 feet 5 inches; depth, 21 feet 4 inches. Capt.Richardson,
late of the Clymene, takes command. The
advent of the Volunteer was appropriately hailed with a salute of five
guns from the battery of the Fourth Cumberland or Workington Artillery
Volunteers."
The Liverpool Mercury, Thursday, 4th February 1864;
" Information of the loss of another ship belonging to this
port was posted in the Underwriters' Rooms yesterday. We refer to the
well-known clipper Volunteer, which has made some of the
fastest passages on record between this port and Calcutta. The telegram
states that when returning to Calcutta from the Mauritius she ran on
Cargados reef and became a wreck. She was a ship of 783 tons register,
built in Workington, expressly for the East India trade, in 1860, and
the property of Messrs.Bushby, of this port. She is, we believe, fully
covered by insurance."
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