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Sancta Bega | Official Number
45917
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The Sancta Bega was an iron barque built by Williamson & Son at Harrington,
launched in March 1863. She was registered at Liverpool.
The Times, 6th May 1863, page 2 (advertisement);
" CALIFORNIA. – Original Line from Liverpool. – For San Francisco
(packet of 5th May), the splendid, new, British clipper ship Sancta
Bega, 475 tons register, A1 13 years: Captain M.Mawson. This vessel
modelled for great speed, is specially intended to meet the fall demand
in August. For terms of freight apply to James Starkey, Liverpool.
A sale advertisement in 1880 stated that the Sancta Bega had
been principally engaged in the "West Coast trade" through her life,
though this seems to have been to the Chilean nitrate ports rather than
San Francisco, which she only visited in 1863 and 1864. The Sancta Bega was sold to German owners some time after 1880 and was renamed Guaymas.
Another barque of the same name, Sancta
Bega, was built at Whitehaven by Lumley
Kennedy.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Sancta Bega
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1863
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475
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149.5
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26.5
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17.1
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3
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13 years A1, Special Survey
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Sources :
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"Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven
Museum (1985).
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1862-3 (Supplement): Sancta Bega,
iron barque, 475 tons, built by Williamson at Harrington in March 1863,
owned by Mawson & Co., registered at Liverpool, master Capt.M.Mawson, voyage Harrington - South America.
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Mercantile Navy List 1868: Sancta Bega, 475 tons, official number 45917, signal letters VGJC,
registered at Liverpool, owned by John Dickenson, of Liverpool.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1869-70: Sancta Bega,
iron barque, 475 tons, built by Williamson at Harrington in March 1863,
owned by Mawson & Co., registered at Liverpool, masters Capts.Bell
and Hughes, voyage Liverpool - South America.
- Mercantile Navy List 1878: Sancta Bega,
barque, 475 tons, built at Harrington in 1863, official number 45917,
signal letters VGJC, registered at Liverpool, owned by John Wilson, of
Whitehaven.
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Mystic Seaport Library Ship
Register Search has shipping register details for most years from 1877
to 1883, when the vessel was registered and owned in Liverpool.
- Advertised for sale in the Liverpool Mercury, Tuesday, 31st August 1880.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4 (Supplement): Guaymas (late Sancta Bega), iron barque, 475 grt, owned by Oetling Brothers, registered at Hamburg (Germany).