Irlam was launched in 1825 at Liverpool for Barton & Co., which had lost two earlier vessels named Irlam: Irlam (1800 ship) in 1812, and Irlam (1813 ship) in 1824. The current Irlam was smaller than her predecessors, but was employed in the same trade, Liverpool–Barbados.
 United Kingdom | |
|---|---|
| Name | Irlam |
| Owner | Barton & Co.[1] |
| Builder | Liverpool[1] |
| Launched | 1825[1] |
| Fate | Wrecked 11 August 1831 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 299[1] (bm) |
Irlam entered Lloyd's Register in 1826 with D. Campbell, master, Barton & Co., owner, and trade Liverpool–Barbados.[1] Her listing in the Register of Shipping in 1826 has the same information.
In 1831 her master was J. Taylor.[2]
Irlam was wrecked on 11 August 1831 in the Great Barbados Hurricane of 1831.[3] Sixteen vessels, barks, brigs, brigantines, and schooners were driven ashore. Irlam was one of the two barks driven onshore.[4] All the vessels, with the exception of two mail boats and a schooner, were totally lost.[5]
Citations
edit- ^ a b c d e Lloyd's Register (1826), Seq. №I165.
- ^ Register of Shipping (1831), Seq.№I159.
- ^ "Dreadful Shipwreck". The Belfast News-Letter. No. 9831. 2 September 1831.
- ^ "Dreadful Hurricane At Barbadoes." Times [London, England] 27 Sept. 1831: 3. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 12 Mar. 2018.
- ^ Bayley (1833), pp. 708–9.
References
edit- Bayley, Frederic William Naylor (1833). Four Years' Residence in the West Indies: During the Years 1826, 7, 8, and 9. B. Kidd.