Name: | CAMBYSES |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 1848 |
Completed: | 09/1848 |
Builder: | Thomas Young & Son |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 254nrt, 94.4 x 24.8 x 16.2ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Snow; (1857: Rigged as a Brig) |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 24430 |
History: | |
15/09/1848 | Robert Morrison, South Shields |
08/06/1857 | John Snowdon & Henry Lee, South Shields |
29/06/1859 | Donald MacKenzie, Stornaway |
30/03/1860 | Registered at Stornaway |
by 1867 | JG Widdicombe, Liverpool |
by 1870 | GR Sheraton, Liverpool |
10/08/1870 | Sank |
Comments: | 25/12/1858: Aground in Castle Bay, Isle of Barra |
On a voyage from Kooria Mooria to the UK with a cargo of guano | |
She lay on her side and was making a lot of water | |
29/06/1859: Auctioned where she lay | |
10/08/1870: Foundered 260 miles NxW of the Island of Madeira | |
On a voyage from Liverpool to Havana |