Dicky Sam (1850 - 1851/1856)

Master: Captain T. Power
Rigging: Barque; sheathed in yellow metal in 1851
Tonnage: 274 tons using old measurements and 305 tons using new measurements
Construction: 1841 in Liverpool; repairs to damages in 1849
Owners: Coubrough (1850-51); Poole & Co. (1856)
Port of registry: Liverpool
Port of survey: Liverpool
Voyage: sailed for Panama (1856)

According to the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register for 1841/42-1866/67, the DICKEY SAM was a bark, built in Liverpool, in 1841. 174/305 tons; 101.6 x 24.3 x 16 feet (length x breadth x depth of hold). Master: 1841/42-1842/43 - J. Carter; 1842/43-1848/49 - J. Coaker; 1849/50-1851/52 - Thompson; 1851/52-1852/53 - T. Power; 1853/54-1857/58 - [not given]; 1858/59-1859/60 - J. Watson; 1860/61-1863/64 - W. Lyall; 1863/64-1866/67 - W. Cumming. Owner:1841/42-1850/51 - Thompson; 1851/52-1852/53 - Coubr'gh; 1853/54-1857/58 - Poole & Co.; 1858/59-1860/61 - King & Co.; 1861/62-1866/67 - W. Cumming. Registry:1841/42-1857/58 - Liverpool; 1858/59-1866/67 - Glasgow. Port of Survey: 1841/42-1857/58 - Liverpool; 1858/59-1863/64 - Clydeside; 1863/64-1865/66 - Cardiff; 1865/66-1866/67 - Clydeside. Destined Voyage: 1841/42-1842/43 - Buenos Aires; 1842/43-1844/45 - Rio de Janeiro; 1843/44-1846/47 - Bombay; 1846/47-1848/49 - Batavia; 1848/49-1851/52 - Lima; 1851/52-1852/53 - [not given]; 1853/54-1857/58 - Panama; 1858/59-1859/60 - [not given]; 1860/61-1866/67 - West Indies. On 6 September 1866, the bark DICKEY SAM, carrying a cargo of railway chairs, was stranded 1 mile above the buoy of Shipwash Sand, with the loss of 13 lives [Wrecks, casualties and collisions on the coasts of the United Kingdom during one year occasioning loss of life, chronologically arranged, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December 1866, inclusive, Parliamentary Papers 1867 (Command 3902) lxiv.410]. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 20 January 1998]