Brigs, Snows and Schooners.
(Post in Preparation).
Brigs and Snows were the workhorses of the sea in the 18th and early 19th Centuries.
see - https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/Preprints/P245.pdf
The Brocklebanks, Shipbuilders of Whitehaven.
I suspect the father of Daniel Brocklebank was also a mariner of Whitehaven.
Daniel Brocklebank (1741 - 1801), of Scalelands etc. in 1770 at Sheepscutt, Portland, Maine built 5 ships but as a loyalist returned to England in 1775 in his ship Castor, which became a privateer (letter of Marque 1779 copy at LMM).
Began shipbuilding in Whitehaven in 1785.
By 1795 his fleet consisted of eleven vessels totalling 1,750 tons.
Lived at 25 Roper Street Whitehaven.
Daniel Brocklebanks sons Thomas 1773- 1845 and John Brocklebank 1774 - 1831 from took over the running of the yards at Whitehaven 1801.
In 1819 Thomas Brocklebank had opened up operations in Liverpool. The Whitehaven Yards closed in 1865
Brocklebanks eventually merged with Cunard.
see - https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/t-j-brocklebank-shipowners
Very few plans or drawings from the 18th and early 19th century of commercial ships have survived. I am posting a series of images of photocopies of drawings from the Brocklebanks ship builders of Whitehaven and latterly Liverpool. These drawings are from the archives of Liverpool Maritime Museum Library and I am very grateful to the staff there for facilitating access and photography.
My visit to Liverpool Maritime Museum was of necessity short, but I was able to cram in much of interest. the photographs here were taken with an i phone 13 and processed with Adobe photoshop (with minimal intervention). I plan to return and to photograph the originals in due course -
Presented here is just a sample of what is available but I have tried to include the earliest and most relevant to this study. The design of the ships remained fairly conservative until the advent of steam and the tea clippers, which were built for speed on the voyage back from the far east when the need for freshness of the tea was paramount.
The earlier drawings here probably give a good idea of the ships made in the Woods and the other ship yards of Whitehaven, Harrington, Workington and Maryport in the late 18th century and early 19th century.
If anyone is really interested I can provide higher resolution images.
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The Brocklebank Drawings.
At Liverpool Maritime Museum archives.
Although I have tried, within reason, to post fairly high resolution images, google/blogger frequently change the image resolution and the format of the blogger platform is inherently unstable, randomly changing the size and font of the text.
The Brig Castor, 1790.
Drawing no 107.
Thomas Luny (1759 - 1837).
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-ship-castor-and-other-vessels-in-a-choppy-sea-175022
see also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_(1782_ship)
National Maritime Museum.
Note - there were at least two ships owned by Brocklebank called Nestor - the first built at Sheepscutt, Maine, America which he sailed back to England, which became a privateer was later sunk. This painting appears to be the ship in the drawing above - misidentified in the Art UK / NMM post, no sign of the 18 x 6 pounder guns in the painting.
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No ship built from these plans.
Three masted Schooner - The figurehead perhaps represents the mythological Arion playing his harp.
Drawing no 110.
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The Brig Nestor.
Drawing no. 111,
Probably the sister ship of the Nestor.
As pointed out this vessel although handsome, was not built for speed.
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Jane and Sarah
Annotated 1795?
Drawing no 112.
Crop of the figurehead (not Sarah or Jane!).
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The Irton 1793.
Brig
Drawing no 113.
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The Cumberland.
Launched October 1800.
Drawing No 114.
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Unidentified Ship.
Drawing no. 115.
Unfortunately the drawing was very faint.
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Brig - no vessel was built from this draught.
Drawing no. 116.
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Identified as New Ship 136.
Drawing No. 121.
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Unidentified Paddle Steamer.
Possibly Countess of Lonsdale.
Drawing No. 135.
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Unidentified Vessel Three Masts.
Drawing No 138.
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The Volunteer, 1803.
Drawing No. 139.
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The Brig Aler, 1796.
Drawing no. 141.
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Brig.
No Vessel built from this draught.
Drawing No. 143.
Good detail of the unadorned stern.
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The Grampus 1792.
Drawing No. 151.
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The Jupiter, 1793.
Drawing No. 152.
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Excellent drawing showing details of the stern of an unidentified vessel.
Drawing No. 153.
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The Carrier launched January 1796.
Drawing No.83.
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Plan of an Unidentified Brig.
Drawing No. 92.
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The Snow Scippio.
Drawing No 93.
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Section of an unknown ship.
Drawing No. 32.
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Naval Brigs.
1757.
This painting probably represents two views of the same ship. It is rigged as a snow with the extra mast mounted to the after mast
Charles Brooking.
Image Courtesy National Maritime Museum Greenwich via Wikipedia.
Image Courtesy National Maritime Museum Greenwich.
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Certificate in Favour of Erecting Piers at Bangor and
Portnessock.
The Belfast Monthly Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 60 (Jul. 31,
1813), pp. 44-48 (5 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30074528
Portnessock (Port Logan), Galloway, Scotland.
Bangor, Co Down, Northern Ireland.
For those interested this list provides the name of the master and port of registration of most ships operating out of Maryport, Harrington and Workington and many from Whitehaven,in 1813.
Kelsick Wood at this point is still at Carlisle.
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