Name: | CUMBRIA also seen as CAMBRIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/08/1854 |
Completed: | 12/1854 |
Builder: | Thomas Toward |
Yard: | St Peter's, Newcastle |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 328grt, 241nrt, 153.0 x 22.5 x 12.5ft |
Engines: | 2cyl, 70nhp |
Engines by: | |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw & rigged as a 3 x masted Schooner |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 12636 |
History: | |
27/12/1854 | Joseph Mark et al, Maryport |
1858 | Old Silloth Steam Co (George Dixon et al), Carlisle |
01/1862 | Silloth Bay Steam Navigation Co Ltd; registered at Carlisle |
1862 | Unknown owner, Liverpool |
26/05/1862 | Taken as a prize |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 11/12/1854: Sailed from the Tyne for Maryport, but put back due to damaged pipes |
13/12/1854: Sailed from the Tyne for Maryport | |
27/12/1854: Trading as the Maryport Steam Shipping Co | |
26/05/1862: Captured by US gunboat HURON off Charleston | |
On a voyage from the UK to the Confederate States with a cargo of rifles & ammunition | |
The cargo worth $300,000 was one of the most valuable taken during the Civil War |
Cumberland Paquet, Tuesday, 05/09/1854
Carlisle Journal, Friday, 27/06/1862