Abbots Reading (1856 - 1857)

Master: Captain J. Walsh (1856); Captain Power (1857)
Rigging: Barque; sheathed in felt and yellow metal in 1854
Tonnage: 421 tons
Construction: 1838 in Liverpool
Owners: Kendall & Co.
Port of registry: Liverpool
Port of survey: Liverpool
Voyage: sailed for South America

According to the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register for 1839/40-1873/74, the ABBOTTS READING was a bark, built in Liverpool, and luanched in October 1838. Official number: 1500. 421 (from 1864/65: 370) tons; 112 x 26.1 x 18 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). Master: 1839/40-1843/44 - T. White; 1843/44-1847/48 - Atkinson; 1848/49-1854/55 - Johnstone; 1855/56-1856/57 - J. Walsh; 1857/58-1862/63 - Power; 1862/63-1863/64 - O. Prout; 1864/65 - C. Lima; 1864/65-1869/70 - Dumaresq; 1870/71 - R. Chestney; 1871/72-1873/74 - J. Charlton. Owner: 1839/40-1864/65 - Kendall & Co.; 1864/65-1870/71 - Satterfield; 1870/71-1873/74 - R. Hutchinson. Registry: 1839/40-1870/71 - Liverpool; 1870/71-1873/74 - West Hartlepool. Port of Survey: 1839/40-1853/54 - Liverpool; 1854/55 - Swansea; 1856/57-1866/67 - Liverpool; 1866/67-1869/70 - London; 1869/70-1870/71 - Liverpool; 1870/71-1873/74 - Hartlepool. Destined Voyage: 1839/40-1843/44 - Lima; 1843/44 - Calcutta; 1844/45-1845/46 - Calcutta [lined out]; 1846/47-1847/48 - Africa; 1848/49-1853/54 - Valparaiso; 1854/55 - Africa; 1855/56-1856/57 - [not given]; 1857/58-1860/61 - South America; 1861/62 - South America [lined out]; 1862/63-1863/64 - South America; 1864/65 - South America [lined out]; 1865/66 - [not given]; 1866/67-1870/71 - South America; 1870/71-1873/74 - Baltic. Lloyd's Register for 1873/74 contains the annotation "wrecked"; however, I am unable to determine the particulars of the wreck, as the microfilm copy to which I have access of the register of wrecks for 1873-1874 bound in the Parliamentary Papers for 1874 and 1875 is illegible. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 20 January 1998]