SV PUDSEY DAWSON under sail

The SV Pudsey Dawson was the vessel that George and Fanny OLIVER came to New Zealand on in 1855. They disembarked at Wellington on the 23rd December 1853.

The following from the 'Through Mighty Seas' website. 

From the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, Tuesday, 16th November 1852, page 3:

" A very fine vessel was launched on Thursday last from the ship-building yard of Messrs.Lumley Kennedy and Co., of this town. The high reputation so long enjoyed by this eminent firm is fully maintained by this, their latest production. She is a very handsome and well-finished vessel, of 693 tons, O.M., and 761, N.M. She posseses a full poop and top-gallant forecastle, and has been built under the special survey of Lloyd's surveyor, for the 13 years A1 class. Her figure-head is a full-length female one, representing Aurora, from a statue by T.Gibson, R.A., and is executed in the best style of Mr.Brooker, of Maryport. As she glided from the stocks she was named, pro tem, Coringa, - the name of a seaport in the Bay of Bengal, - by John Peile, Esq. As she has not yet been disposed of, this name is, of course, but a temporary one. She will no doubt speedily find a purchaser, when we trust the skill and energy of her enterprising builders will meet with an ample reward."

From the Manchester Guardian, 19th April 1856, Front Page :

" SAN FRANCISCO-LIVERPOOL LINE OF CALIFORNIA PACKETS - Warranted First Vessel; not Coal Laden.-To be despatched 30th April.- For San Francisco, from Liverpool, the magnificent Whitehaven-built clipper Ship Pudsey Dawson; J.Davies, Commander; 693 tons register, A1 for 13 years, and only two years old. This splendid ship will be found the most desirable conveyance ever offered to shippers from this country. Loading in Salthouse Dock.-For terms of freight &c. apply to Boult, English, and Brandon, Rumford Place; or Muir and Leighton, 15, Water-street, Liverpool. "

Source 6 reports that the Pudsey Dawson was sold to Hosken of Liverpool in 1867, then to Anderson of London three years later. In 1877 she was owned in Plymouth. The ship ended her days in that port, reduced first to a barge and then to a coal hulk.
 

_{Sources :}

1. _{"Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984) - gives launch date, tonnage as 762 and states that the ship was registered at London in 1873.}
2. _{BoT Transcript of Liverpool Shipping Register (No.35 for 1853) at the Merseyside Maritime Museum - gives launch date as 11th Nov.1852, and states that the registration was transferred from Liverpool to Plymouth in 1874.}
3. _{http://www.angelfire.com/az/nzgenweb/ships.html and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/otago1855.htm}
   
4. _{http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/events/4/349.htm#12456}
5. _{The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK has a photo of a painting of the Pudsey Dawson, negative number D1626.}
6. _{"Ships of West Cumberland" by Desmond G.Sythes (first published 1969, republished by The Friends of Whitehaven Museum, 1992) - information from Sheila Cartwright.}
7. _{Mercantile Navy List 1857 gives official number and names port of registry as Liverpool, vessel 761 tons, signal code LDVM.}
8. _{American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1870 - vessel described as a ship, names master as Coole, owner as Hutchinson & Co.}
9. _{American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1881 - vessel described as a barque, names master as R.Rawle, owner as Moore & Rawle, registered at Plymouth.}

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