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Berhampore - a general history

Completed May 1864; Official No. 49869; Code Letters WFRM.

Owners: 1864 Peter McKinnon, William Frew & Co, Liverpool;: 1873 Canada Shipping Co (Ltd) (Beaver Line) Montreal, Quebec-renamed Lake St Clair (Peter Rintoul, Son & Co, Glasgow agents).

Masters: 1864-72 McMillan; 1873-74 Lamont; 1876 James Coffey.

Miscellaneous:  6 January 1873 from Liverpool for New Orleans off Cape Finisterre, she ran into the brig Anna Lassen & sank her. Seven of the crew jumped aboard Lake St Clair but three were drowned; 26 July 1875 she was in a collision with the ship Underwriter, owned by Joseph Wilson of South Shields; 11 February 1875 she sailed from the Mersey & after experiencing stormy weather arrived at New York on 27 December.

Lake St Clair sailed from New York on 19 January 1876 bound for Glasgow with a general cargo of 1,300 tons, including grain & flour, & a total crew of 33 & was not heard of again. It was assumed she had foundered during a hurricane that was blowing in the Atlantic towards the end of January. Most of the crew had been shipped at Liverpool.

Lives lost 1876:

Antone, James, steward, Glasgow

Armstrong T, carpenter

Atkinson, W, able seaman

Brown, J, able seaman

Clancey, A, able seaman

Clancey, James, able seaman

Coffey, James, master, West Scotland

Crowman, John, able seaman

Daley, James, able seaman

Fitzsimmons, JB, able seaman

Hogan, W, ordinary seaman

Hughes, John, ordinary seaman

Jackson, W, cook

Johnson, James, able seaman

Keating J, able seaman

Keating, William, able seaman

Kelly, Willaim, boatswain’s mate

King, G, ordinary seaman

Lawlor, John, able seaman

Lewis, T, able seaman

McFall, B, ordinary seaman

Newton, John, able seaman

Peilett, George, sailmaker

Price, W, ordinary seaman

Ramsay, T, ordinary seaman

Reddin, J, able seaman

Ritchie, William, able seaman

Sinclair, D, mate, Glasgow

Smidt, T, 2nd mate

Williams, R, boatswain

Wilogh, James, able seaman

Wilson, A, able seaman

Wishman, H, able seaman

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