Duckenfield (1814 ship)

Duckenfield was launched in 1814 at Great Yarmouth. She spent most of her career as a West Indiaman. Between 1831 and 1833 she sailed to Australia and Bengal. She then started sailing across the North Atlantic. She became waterlogged; her surviving crew were rescued on 1 December 1835. They left her in a sinking state.

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

History
United Kingdom
NameDuckenfield
NamesakeDuckenfield, Jamaica
BuilderPreston, Great Yarmouth
Launched13 September 1814
FateAbandoned 1 December 1835
General characteristics
Class and type36725⁄94,[1] or 370[2] (bm)

Career

Duckenfield first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1814 with H. Wood, master, C. Nockels, owner, and trade London–Jamaica.[2]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1815 H. Wood C. Nockels London–Jamaica Lloyd's Register (LR)
1820 Wood Nockels London–Jamaica Register of Shipping (RS)

On 22 December 1824 Duckenfield ran foul of HMS Niemen in Cowes Roads.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1825 D[avid] T[homson] Lyon Cox & Co. London–Honduras LR; "wants repair"
1830 Riddle (Adam Riddell) Cox & Co. London–Honduras RS; large repair 1828

In 1829 Duckenfield sailed to Saint Helena with coal. From 1830 or so on, Duckenfield started to sail east of the Cape of Good Hope under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She sailed to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales on 12 February 1831.[4]

On 5 March 1831 West India was wrecked on the Bonavista Reef (Cape Verde Islands). Duckenfield rescued the crew. West India was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius.[5]

Duckenfield left Sydney on 7 August 1831 and arrived at Hobart on 17 August. From Van Diemen's Land Duckenfield sailed back to Britain via Bengal and arrived in London on 22 September 1833. She brought with her a Tasmanian devil, a gift to the Surrey Zoological Society.[6]

Fate

Lloyd's Register for 1835 showed Duckenfield's owner and master as Mosey, and her trade as London–Quebec.[7] Her crew abandoned Duckenfield on 1 December 1835 in the Atlantic Ocean. Constitution rescued her ten surviving crew.[8] Duckenfield had been coming back to Britain from Miramichi, New Brunswick, when she became water-logged. By the time Constitution arrived the master, mate, and three crew members had already died, and three of the survivors were in a dying state.[9] Another report provided more detail. It stated that the master (Jackson), mate, two seamen, and a boy had died of starvation. Six of the survivors went aboard Priam, and four went on board Constitution.[10]

Citations
  1. Hackman (2001), p. 269.
  2. Lloyd's Register (1814), Supple. pagers "D", Seq.№55.
  3. Lloyd's List №5971.
  4. Lloyd's Register (1831). "Ships Trading to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land".
  5. "Naval Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 1045. 13 May 1831.
  6. Bunce (1857), p. 13.
  7. Lloyd's Register (1835), Seq. №403.
  8. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15978. London. 21 December 1835. col D, p. 3.
  9. House of Commons (1839), p. 85.
  10. House of Commons (1839), p. 62.

References
  • Bunce, Daniel (1857). Australasiatic Reminiscences of Twenty Three-years' Wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias: Including Travels with Dr. Leichhardt in North Or Tropical Australia. J.T. Hendry.
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain (1839). Report from Select Committee on Shipwrecks of Timber Ships: With the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. H.M. Stationery Office.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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