History
United Kingdom
NameWoodford
Owner
  • 1817: Chapman & Co.
  • 185: Fletcher & Co.
  • 1834: John Lawson, Whitby
BuilderFishburn & Broderick, Whitby[1]
Launched7 June 1815
FateWrecked 22 November 1837
General characteristics
Tons burthen373, or 37353⁄94,[2] or 374,[3] or 378[4] (bm)

Woodford was launched in 1815 at Whitby as a West Indiaman. Between 1816 and 1817 she made two voyages to the Indian Ocean or the East Indies, sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked at Laeso in November 1837.

Career

Woodford first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1815 with Brady, master, Chapman, owner, and trade London–West Indies.[5]

Still, in 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC.[6] Woodford's owners applied on 1 December 1815 for a licence, which they received three days later.[3]

On 23 December 1815 Woodford, Brady, master, arrived at Portsmouth, from London, bound for the Cape of Good Hope and Isle of France (Mauritius).[7] on 22 April 1816 she sailed from the Cape for Mauritius. From Mauritius Woodford sailed to Batavia She was there on 3 September, shortly after the Dutch had resumed control of the Dutch East Indies.[8] By 3 and 4 January Woodford, Brady, master, was back in England in the Downs where the gales of those dates caught her, costing her her anchor and cables.[9] By 14 January she was at Gravesend.

Woodford sailed to Mauritius a second time. On 30 November 1817 Woodford, Brady, master, arrived at Hull, having left Isle of France on 23 August, and Saint Helena on 9 October.[10] She arrived at Gravesend on 2 December.

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1820 Eltringham Chapman London–Jamaica LR
1825 Lamborn Fletcher & Co. London–Jamaica LR
1830 Last Fletcher & Co. London–Jamaica LR; small repairs 1826
1837 Sanderson Lawson & Co. London–Quebec LR; large repair 1835

In May 1835 Woodford underwent repairs at the dock of Henry and George Barrick, Whitby. She was then surveyed on 13 May.[1]

Fate

Woodford, Sanderson (or Saunderson), master, was driven ashore on Læsø on 22 November 1837 and wrecked; her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga to Plymouth.[11][12]

Citations

References

  • 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 (1816). Parliamentary Papers. Vol. 10.
  • Weatherill, Richard (1908). The ancient port of Whitby and its shipping. Whitby: Horne and Son.
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