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John Bellamy - a general history

Completed August 1863;  Yard No. 51; Official No. 47502; Code Letters VNTQ.

Owners: 1863 Peter Stuart & Douglas, Liverpool; December 1867 John Bellamy (son of Peter Stuart) Liverpool.

Masters: 12 August 1863 John Jennings (C.N. 12621); 1863-68 Calvert; 1868-69 Donaldson.

Miscellaneous: 25 October 1867 from London for Bombay she collided with the brigantine Eureka in the Atlantic Ocean. An inquiry was held at the Admiralty Court, Westminster instituted on behalf of the owners of the late brigantine Eureka and her cargo, to recover for the total loss of that vessel with her cargo by collision. The case occupied four days with the Court finding that the John Bellamy had failed to prove her lights were exhibited, and that she was solely to blame for the collision.

The John Bellamy left Calcutta on 10 April 1869 bound for London with a full general cargo & went ashore just north of Cape Negrais on the coast of Burma on 18 April 1869. She was abandoned the same day as she was full of water & her mainmast was through her bottom. The crew were picked up & landed at Bassein. The wreck was sold in May 1869.

Crew June 1866:

 

Berry, Henry, sails, 51, Ayr

Burton, Joseph, cook, 22, Pennsylvania

Calvert, Joseph, master

Carroll, Patrick, ordinary seaman, 25, Waterford

Casey, Thomas, able seaman, 22, Dublin

Cunningham, N, steward, 21, Dublin

Dryden, TJ, 2nd mate, 24, Swansea

Fayne, Donis, able seaman, 21, Dublin

Hewxman, Henry, ordinary seaman, 23, London

Hogland, Gusty, able seaman, 23, Sweden

Hutchings, James, able seaman, 30, Sweden

Hutchison, Andrew, able seaman, 24, Aberdeen

Johnson, David, able seaman, 31, Aberdeen

McCarthy, Jeremiah, engine driver, 25, London

Miller, David, able seaman, 23, Cornwall

Murray, Edward, able seaman, 30, Cork

Payner, Thomas, painter, 23, Westminster

Pyemont, EE, cook, 33, London

Raab, Mathias, carpenter, 28, Germany

Rylanium, John, able seaman, 27, Liverpool

Shields, James, able seaman, 30, Sweden

Talman, AU, ordinary seaman, 19, London

Tielling, George, able seaman, 22, Hamburg

Tornson, T, able seaman, 25, Sweden

Torvus, David, mate, 28, Perth

Wills, J, able seaman, 19, Salcombe

Worchers, Benjamin, boatswain, 45, Norfolk

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