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The Ant was a brig built by Samuel Nicholson at Whitehaven, launched on the 13th February 1804. In 1840 she was registered at Whitehaven and was owned by Capt.Bernard Sheridan (her master) and others.

From the Carlisle Patriot newspaper, Friday, 1st November, 1844 :

NEWFOUNDLAND, October 4 - The brig Ant, Sheridan, of Whitehaven, from St.Thomas for St. John's N. B. was abandoned on the 26th ultimo, in lat.39, long.65, having been struck by a sea and totally disabled on the 16th. The crew were taken off the wreck by the William Horatio, Cooper, arrived at this port from Baltimore.

Name

Year Built

Gross Tons

Length (feet)

Breadth (feet)

Depth (feet)

Masts

Figurehead

Stern

Lloyd's Classn.

Ant

1804

 156 om

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
  2. A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven

 

 

On board the ANT  in 1841  were

William UMPHERSTON
John
Ann