BELINA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Nicol Reid & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen, Scotland, founded c.1790)
Date1817
Object NameSHIP
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 99 3/6' x breadth 28 5/12' x depth 18 5/6'
Registered Tonnage: 336 ton
Registered Tonnage: 336 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001646
Keywords
Fate: wrecked on the Goodwin Sands (Kent) 23 November 1824
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged, single deck with beams, hull sheathed with copper.
Owners:
1817-20: James Brebner, David Chalmers, James Harper and 2 others (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
1821: Captain (Wildgoose) (Lloyd's underwriters)
1822-24: A. G. Milne
Masters:
1818-19: Master R. Beverly
1820-24: Master Wildgoose, sometimes also with J. Barclay (1822-23)
1824: Master John Craig
Voyages:
1818-22: London - Grenada
1823: London - Jamaica
1824: London - Demerara
General History:
24/11/1824:
"Deal, Nov 23 - A most melancholy and awful instance of shipwreck occurred here this morning. the outward bound West Indiaman BELINA, John Craig, master, got on the Goodwin Sands in the course of the night, and at daylight was seen in a most distressing situation, perfect wreck. The wind at this time was blowing a complete hurricane from the south-west, with a most tremendous sea. The Deal boatmen with an intrepidity and disinterestedness above all praise, were on the alert, though, from the first, there was no hope of saving the vessel; several attempts were ineffectually made by the boat people to board the ship, at the imminent hazard of their own lives, when horrible to relate, she went to pieces, and 13 of the crew unhappily met a watery grave; but, by the persevering efforts of the Deal boats, the fortunately succeeded in saving the master, second mate, three men and a boy, who were landed here about nine o'clock, amidst the sympathising feelings of a multitude of persons collected on the beach, anxious to learn the particulars of so heart-rending a catastrophe. It is impossible to speak of the deal boatmen upon this occasion in terms of sufficient admiration, since but for their exertions every soul on board must have inevitably perished."
(Sun (London) )
The Captain and five crew survived - two bodies from the fourteen lives lost were interred in the area of the burial ground in Western Road, Deal, known as 'Strangers' Nook'.
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), “Shipwreck Index of the British Isles” (Lloyd’s Register, London), vol. 2, section 6)
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