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Terry | Official Number
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The Terry was a brig built at Maryport in 1783 by Thomas
Wood. She had a career of 65 years before foundering in the Atlantic
after collision with a whale.
The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday,
18th July 1848, page 3;
" The brig Terry, of Whitehaven, from Liverpool, was
struck by a large whale on the 16th May, in lat.37 deg., long.49 deg, became
leaky, was abandoned on the 27th, and shortly after sunk: crew saved, and
arrived at St.John's, Newfoundland, on the 21st of June."
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Terry
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1783
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171
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2
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Sources :
- List of Maryport Shipping in "Jollie's Cumberland Guide & Directory" by Frederick Jollie (1811): Terry, brig, 171 tons, owned by her master, Capt.E.Bell, and others.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Shipowners' Red Book)1829-30: Terry, brig,
172 tons, built at Maryport 1780, owned by Bell & Co., master
Capt.Waite, voyage Dartmouth - Newfoundland.
- "A List of the Cumberland Shipping corrected to February 1840" by William
Sawyers, Comptroller of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port of Whitehaven,
republished by Michael Moon (Whitehaven, 1975, ISBN 0-904131-09-2): Terry, brig, 171 tons, built 1783 at Maryport, registered at Maryport, owned by Ann Bell and others, master Capt.Robert Hodgson.