Agnes (1849)

Career (Nova Scotia)
Name: Agnes
Port of registry: Pictou, Nova Scotia
Builder: Unknown Point Brenley, Nova Scotia
Launched: 1849
Notes: official number 900027, later changed when re-registered
Career
Name: Agnes
Owner: James Lloyd
Port of registry: Sydney
Ship registration number: 30/1869
Ship official number: 31599
Status: Wrecked
General characteristics
Type: Wood Brigantine
Tonnage: Gross tonnage (GT) of 104  tons
Displacement: Net tonnage (NT) of 100  tons
Length: 20.4  m
Beam: 6.04  m
Draught: 3.5  m
Installed power: NA
Ship primary use: Transport
Ship industry:
Ship passenger capacity: 0
Crew: 5

The Agnes was a wooden brigantine built in 1849 at Point Brenley, Nova Scotia in 1849. She was first registered in Pictou, Nova Scotia.[1] Later acquired by owners in Sydney, Australia, she was wrecked when the wind changed whilst carrying ballast between Sydney and Wollongong and was lost on the north side side of the Wollongong breakwater New South Wales on the 10 March 1877

References

  1. ^ "Agnes 1849", Canadian Heritage Information Network, Ship Information Database

Online Database's
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [3]

Other Online sources
Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 [4]
Books

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