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Yaratilda | Official Number
18567 |
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Yaratilda | Official Number
18567 |
The Yaratilda was a full-rigged ship built at the Williamson shipyard, Harrington, and launched on Monday, 22nd June 1857.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser" , Tuesday,
23rd June 1857, page 5;
"SHIP LAUNCH AT HARRINGTON :- A very handsome new ship was
launched yesterday from the building yard of Messrs.R.Williamson and Son,
Harrington, and christened by the Rev.W.Patterson, of Whitehaven, the Yaratilda.
We understand she has been built under cover and special survey to class
A1 at Lloyd's for fourteen years. She measures in length 173 feet 2 inches;
in breadth 31 feet 6 inches; depth 20 feet 1 inch; is 815 tons builders'
measure; coppered and copper-fastened throughout, with half-poop and topgallant
forecastle.........This splendid ship, we understand, is intended for the
China trade, and is fitted with Cunningham's patent self-reefing topsails."
The Yaratilda seems to have started her career sailing between Liverpool and Calcutta, but by 1860 had entered her intended trade and was returning to England from China with tea. The vessel was owned by the Alexander family of Workington throughout her life, and was lost in the Indian Ocean in 1866 on a voyage to China. She was one of several vessels damaged by a hurricane off the Cape of Good Hope on the 22nd June. Her master was Capt.Donough, and he managed to sail his leaky and dismasted ship a further five days, until a rescuing vessel came into sight.
The Times, Wednesday, 5th September 1866, page 10;
"SHIP NEWS.- The Yaratilda, of Workington, from London
for Hongkong, was abandoned on the 27th June in lat.34 S., long.42 E.,
leaky, loss of boats, &c. and only lower masts standing; crew taken
off and landed at Madras by the Briar Hall."
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