Barkworth (1811 ship)

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Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameBarkworth
Owner
  • 1811:Barkworth
  • 1822:Pedler & Co. [1]
  • 1823:Taylor & co. [2]
BuilderBarkworth & Hawkes, Hessle, Hull [3]
Launched16 November 1811 [3]
FateFoundered without a trace in 1824
General characteristics
Tons burthen505, [4] or 50539⁄94, [3] or 523, [2] or 533, [5] or 536 [6] (bm)
Length115 ft 9 in (35.3 m) (overall); 91 ft 10 in (28.0 m) (keel) [4]
Beam35 ft 2 in (10.7 m) [4]
Depth of hold14 ft 10 in (4.5 m) [4]
PropulsionSail
Armament10 × 18 + 4 × 9-pounder carronades [5]
NotesTwo decks

Barkworth was launched in 1811 and began her career as a West Indiaman. She then made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC). Thereafter she traded with India. She disappeared without a trace in 1824 on her way to Bombay.

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Career

Barkworth appears in Lloyd's Register for 1812 with T. Forest, master, and trade Hull—London. [7] the Register of Shipping has her sailing to the West Indies.

YearMasterOwnerTrade
1813T. Forest
Smith		S. BarkworthHull—London
London transport [5]
1814SmithS. BarkworthLondon transport
1815SmithS. BarkworthLondon transport
1816Smith
T. Lynn		S. BarkworthLondon transport

EIC voyage (1816–1817): Captain Thomas Lynn sailed from the Downs on 24 March 1816, bound for St Helena and China. Barkworth was at St Helena on 10 June, reached Batavia on 30 September, and arrived at Whampoa Anchorage on 7 January 1817. Homeward bound, she was off North Island (the northernmost of three islands in the bay that formed the principle anchorage of Enggano Island), on 23 March and reached St Helena on 7 June. Barkworth arrived at Northfleet on 11 August.

On 28 October 1818 Barkworth was in Madras Roads when a gale drove her and a number of other vessels out. [8] She then stopped at Trincomalee to refit and was expected to sail to Bombay. [9]

Lloyd's Register carries Barkworth as continuing to trade with India. Lloyd's Register for 1823 has Pedler as master and owner, and her trade as London—Bombay. [1]

Lloyd's Register for 1824 has Barkworth's master as Green, her owner as Taylor and Co., and her trade as London-Bombay. [2] The Register of Shipping still has Pedler as master and owner, but agrees with the trade London—Bombay. It also notes that Barkworth underwent a thorough repair in 1823. [6]

Fate

On 29 September 1824, off the Cape Verde Islands, Cumberland spoke with Barkworth, which was bound for Bombay. Cumberland arrived at Rio de Janeiro 20 October, but Barkworth was never heard from again. [10] [lower-alpha 1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Hackman quotes a clearly incorrect report that has Barkworth spoken to "while outward bound from London to the West Indies by the Cumberland West Indiaman, Captain Cairns, then bound for Botany Bay with convicts." [3] Bateson (1959), the definitive work on convict ships to Australia, has no record of any vessel named Cumberland delivering convicts to either New South Wales or Van Dieman's Land. Also, Lloyd's List for 1824 has no vessel named Cumberland sailing on a route that would take them to Rio or via Rio, nor are the two vessels with Cairns as master on such a route. However, the Register of Shipping has a Cumberland, that had been a whaler for Samuel Enderby & Sons, but that now had a new master, Cairnes, and a new trade, London—New South Wales. [11]

Citations

  1. 1 2 Lloyd's Register (1823), Seq.№B50.
  2. 1 2 3 Lloyd's Register (1824), Seq.№B53.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hackman (2001), p. 64.
  4. 1 2 3 4 British Library: Barkworth
  5. 1 2 3 Lloyd's Register (1813), Seq.№B43.
  6. 1 2 Register of Shipping (1824), Seq.№51.
  7. ↑ Lloyd's Register (1812), Supple. Seq.№6.
  8. ↑ Lloyd's List №5372.
  9. ↑ Lloyd's List №5383.
  10. ↑ Lloyd's List №5973.
  11. ↑ Register of Shipping (1824), Seq.№C942.

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