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Corea | Official Number
21333 |
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Corea | Official Number
21333 |
The Corea was a full-rigged ship built at Workington, Cumberland, first registered in August 1859. She was owned in Liverpool by Bushby & Edwards.
The Cumberland Pacquet, Tuesday, 9th August 1859;
" SHIP LAUNCHES - On Saturday a fine vessel was launched from the
inner yard of the Harrington and Workington Shipbuilding Company,
Workington, of 651 tons old and 581 tons new measurement, named the Corea,
and owned by Messrs.Bushby, of Clifton and Liverpool. Though somewhat
smaller than many of the vessels launched of late years by the same
builders for the same owners, the Corea, in point of model,
materials and workmanship, will bear comparison with any of them.
She stands A1 at Lloyd's for 14 years, and has been built under cover,
and is intended for the East India and China trade " (report continues
with the launch of the Cora Cora).
Two voyages in the Corea are described in the autobiography of Capt.Thomas Garry Fraser, a Harrington-born seaman who started his career in her as an apprentice, eventually rising to command a variety of Liverpool ships. He joined the Corea on the 19th May 1865, as an apprentice to the Liverpool shipping firm of Bushby & Edwards, who owned her and other Workington-built vessels such as Belted Will, Dunmail, Banian and Carricks. Fraser describes her as a 581 ton clipper, and his first voyage was from Liverpool to Hong Kong and Whampoa. They left Liverpool Prince's Dock on the 22nd May, and the crew comprised master, three mates, bosun, carpenter, sailmaker, cook, steward, twelve AB's, two OS's and six apprentices. One of the AB's was lost during the voyage, after falling from the rigging. The outward voyage took the Corea past Madeira, Tenerife, Tristan da Cunha, Christmas Island, Java, Sumatra and Borneo before the ship reached Pedders Wharf, Hong Kong on the 7th September, a passage of 107 days. After discharging the ship sailed for Foochow to load a cargo of tea for London, and at that port anchored amongst such famous tea clippers as Taeping, Fiery Cross, and Belted Will. The voyage to London passed through the Sunda Straights, then Madagascar, around the Cape of Good Hope to a stop at St.Helena for replenishing food and water.
Fraser's second voyage in the Corea started on the 16th May 1866, when the ship left London's South Dock bound for Kanagawa and Yokohama, Japan. The route this time took the ship inside the Cape Verdes, before rounding the Cape and then proceeding on her previous route, then passing to the east of Formosa (Taiwan), arriving at Yokohama after a 120 day passage on the 18th September. The ship stayed in Japan for four months, and the return voyage to London was uneventful. The master of the Corea on both these voyages was Capt.J.Garry, a relative of Fraser's, and both men were transferred to the newly-built Carricks for their next voyage.
Fraser returned to the Corea, as second mate, in 1870. They sailed
from London to Whampoa, under the command of Capt.Can, then returned from
Macao to London with tea, the round voyage lasting eight months and ten
days. The next passage was from London to Hong Kong (101 days), picking
up a part cargo of tea and silk from Whampoa, then returning from Macao
to London. In 1872 the Corea sailed to Australia, because she was
not available early enough in the season to re-enter the tea trade. She
sailed under Capt.Can and with Fraser as first mate to Adelaide, and made
the passage in 71 days. The return cargo was coal loaded at Newcastle NSW,
for Nagasaki, Japan. The Corea then sailed for New York with tea
and silk, and returned to London with a crew of West Indians. In 1873 Fraser
left the Corea to take command of the Doriga.
The registration of the Corea was transferred from Workington to Shanghai in April 1883. She seems to have ended her career as a hulk at that port.
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