City of Carlisle
Up Name Origins Ada Iredale Ainsdale Allonby Archer Arethusa Astoria Bessfield Calabar City of Carlisle Cockermouth Cumbrian Derby Park Dimsdale Dovenby 1 Dovenby 2 Drumalis Embleton G Broughton Iredale Kinkora Lizzie Bell Lizzie Iredale Lodore Lonsdale Lorton Martha Fisher Mary Ann Wilson Mowhan Penrith Peter Iredale Ravenhill Seaton Ulidia Ullock Vale of Doon

 

Date built:

1875

Builder:

Dobie

Yard:

Glasgow

Yard No:

 

Dimensions:

 

NRT:

859

Rig:

IB

Built for:

Peter Iredale

Code:

PDJS

Official No:

70972

Sails:

 

    

Date bought:

1875

Service life:

22 yrs.

    

In service until:

1897

Service ended as ship was

abandoned

Picture:

No

Remark 1

Abandoned in N. Atlantic

Date

00.12.1897

Remark 2

Liverpool to Adelaide

Date

 
 

Memoirs of the Late Captain Thos. Carter Fearon, of Lancaster

From: Sea Breezes Vol XIV No 139 Page 258-9 June 1931

"Soon after arriving in London I obtained the berth of second mate on the iron barque City of Carlisle, 823 tons register, belonging to my former employer, Mr. Iredale. That was in 1870. I was now 20 years of age and beginning to realise the responsibilities of life. I had the good fortune to begin my career as an officer with a master who was a thorough seaman of the old type, who did not believe in taking things easy at any time, and kept everybody up to the mark. I refer to Captain J. H. Rich, of Maryport, who was lost in the stranding of the Brier Holme on the coast of Tasmania in November, 1904.

The City of Carlisle sailed from Liverpool for San Francisco, and from there in ballast to Moodyville, Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, to load a timber cargo for Valparaiso. From Valparaiso to Iquique, where she loaded nitrate of soda for New York. So far I went to a different port every passage, and managed to see a good many places in my first few years at sea. From New York the ship loaded a general cargo for Liverpool, and so ended that voyage of nearly two years."