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Trying to find a ship

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Tawny

Tawny Report 11 Dec 2008 21:10

One of my ancestors is on board a ship called Nerrid in Whitehaven Harbour on the evening of the 1861 census having traveled from Ireland. Anyone any ideas on where or how I could find out more information on the Nerrid?

Tawny

Researching:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

nuttybongo

nuttybongo Report 11 Dec 2008 21:14

hi there,
Sometimes you can find out more from the port in which she sailed. Also LLoyds of London hold records of ships, as do the Maritime Museum in London. Can be a minefield though. My family owned sloops and keels and i have been lucky to find a family link with the last of the boat builders who did research on a lot of the vessels. Might be worth searching for the family and then tracing back. Some of the websites list vessels ad crew and some mention if the ship was wrecked at all.
Hope that helps.

Researching:
Wood, Westnedge(spelling variants) padley, parkin, coulthard, (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, ) Jenkinson,Pashley, Moss (America) Meechan, Meehan, Mofatt, (Scotland and Ireland)

Tawny

Tawny Report 11 Dec 2008 21:17

Thank you I will see if I can find anything out in Whitehaven.

Tawny

Researching:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

Paul Barton, Special Agent

Paul Barton, Special Agent Report 13 Dec 2008 00:20

Firstly I should double check the name of the ship. Is it perhaps called the Nereid?

From "The Belfast Newsletter", Saturday 5th October 1861 :

" Yesterday morning, about 5 o'clock, a very serious collision took place in the Irish Channel between the screw steamer Semaphore, Captain Campbell, belonging to the Belfast Steam Ship Company, and the brig Nereid, of Whitehaven, and resulted in the loss of the latter vessel, and serious injury to the steamer. The Semaphore was on her way from Liverpool to Belfast, and the Nereid was bound from Whitehaven to Cardiff with a cargo of iron ore. The morning was dark, and there was a thick fog, and the vessels were about five miles off the Calf of Man when the collision took place. "

Name Nereid
Gross Tons 159
Masts 2

Mercantile Navy List 1857 gives port of registry as Whitehaven, official number and signal letters KGRP, tonnage 159.