Hibernia (1828 ship)

Hibernia was a passenger ship built at Prince Edward's Island in 1828. She was transporting passengers from Liverpool to Australia when a shipboard fire in the South Atlantic (4°40′S 20°30′W) on 5 February 1833 destroyed her.

For other ships with the same name, see Hibernia (ship).

History
United Kingdom
Name: Hibernia
Launched: 1828, Murray Harbour, Prince Edward's Island[1]
Fate: Consumed by fire February 1833
General characteristics
Type: Three Masted
Tons burthen: 456​61⁄94,[1] or 480[2][3] (bm)
Length: 117 ft 1 in (35.7 m)[1]
Beam: 30 ft 5 1⁄4 in (9.3 m)[1]
Propulsion: Sail
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship

Background

Hibernia had two decks, with poop and forecastle decks. She had three masts, a square stern, quarter quarter galleries, and a scroll head. She was registered at Bristol on 6 April 1829, with owner John Cambridge. Cambridge mortgaged her, but died. The mortgage holders died also, and the executors of his will and that of the executors of the holders, who were in bankruptcy when they died, sold Hibernia on 8 November 1832 to Edward Walkinshaw, a merchant of Liverpool.[1]

Her first master was John Kemp. He sailed Hibernia between Bristol and Quebec.[2] Then on 24 November 1832 William Brend assumed command at Liverpool.[1]

Loss

Hibernia initially sailed from Liverpool on 27 November, but needed to return for repairs caused by a storm.[4] She left again on 6 December 1832, bound for the Cape of Good Hope, Van Diemen's Land, and Sydney. Her complement consisted of 209 passengers (79 males, 80 females, and 50 children), and 19 seamen and 4 apprentices; total 232.

A fire in the South Atlantic (4°40′S 20°30′W) on 5 February 1833 destroyed her. The fire was caused when second mate, Samuel Geddes, accidentally dropped a flame onto rum in the spirit room.[5]

Of the 232 people on board the ship, 62 were rescued on 11 February by the convict ship Lotus, John Summerson, master, and delivered to Rio de Janeiro on 12 February.[6] Nine more took to a pinnace and were rescued by the brig Isabella, Le Fere, master, and also delivered to Rio de Janeiro on 21 February.[7][Note 1] All the remaining passengers and crew drowned. (Other accounts report 78 survivors.[3])

List of Survivors:[9]

  • William Brend, Commander
  • James Geddes. Second mate
  • William Grace, attorney
  • John Toville, M.D.
  • Peter Sinclair, Esq.
  • Richard Murray, Esq
  • Mrs Ridley, widow
  • Mrs Watson
  • John Toole, wife and children
  • John Byrne
  • George Meayan
  • Cosmo Webster
  • Patrick Donnelly
  • Thomas Heran
  • George Nashton and two children
  • Patrick Conolly and wife
  • James Taylor
  • Henry Palmer
  • George Howard
  • Thomas Elison
  • James Ebes
  • Nathaniel Hartley
  • William Harley
  • William Bromley
  • Mrs Thomas Moulter, widow
  • Mrs Edward Matthews, window
  • John James, seaman
  • James McQuade, seaman
  • Samuel Bean, seaman
  • Henry Lloyd, seaman
  • Henry Geeten, seaman
  • Henry Duggan, seaman
  • John Mahony, seaman
  • Charles Leighton, seaman
  • James Davis, seaman
  • Isabella Smith
  • Emily Smith
  • Elizabeth Bunker
  • Elizabeth Ging
  • Anne Colbert
  • Elizabeth Woods
  • Mrs Thompson
  • Mrs Logan (lost two children)
  • Thomas Graham
  • James Easy
  • Thomas Griffin
  • John Murphy
  • Peter Dee
  • James Sly and wife
  • James Bryson
  • Timothy Moriarty
  • Henry Gillis
  • Henry Richardson
  • Vincent Broomhall, orphan
  • William Broomhall, orphan
  • Henry Taylor, First Mate
  • Charles Atkinson, Esq.
  • James Campbell, wife and four children
  • James Perry
  • Robert Holmes
  • William Ray
  • John Williamson
  • Robert Cheap
  • William Meage
  • James Tennant
  • George Richardson
  • Edwin Graham

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

  1. Isabella, of 229 tons (bm), Fleure (or J. John Flère), master, was a Guernsey ship, launched there in 1832, with owner J.Bonamy. She was on a voyage from Trieste.[8]

Citations

  1. Farr (1950), p. 154.
  2. Lloyd's Register (1829), Supplement, Seq.№H25.
  3. Hackman (2001), p. 283.
  4. Lloyd's List, Friday, 30 November.
  5. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12847193
  6. "Male Convict Ship Lotus", Sydney Monitor (8 June 1833), p.4.
  7. The Nautical Magazine a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs in General. Fisher, Son & Company. 1833. p. 557.
  8. "The loss of the Hibernia, April 1833"
  9. London Standard, 2 May 1833.

References

  • Clayton, Jane M (2014). Ships employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775–1815: An alphabetical list of ships. Berforts Group. ISBN 9781908616524.
  • Farr, Grahame E., ed. (1950). Records of Bristol Ships, 1800-1838 (vessels over 150 tons). 15. Bristol Record Society.
  • "24 May 1833 – LOSS OF THE HIBERNIA. – Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
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