Nickolaus Schneider Ancestry: Anton Schneider's Immigrant Ship

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Diadem

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The Diadem was a wooden schooner built at Whitehaven in 1839. In 1840 her master was named as Benjamin Ellwood (see Source1).

The Diadem was wrecked 1.5 miles W of Peel on the Isle of Man on the 9th October 1883. She had been travelling from Drogheda to Harrington in ballast. At the time of the wreck she was owned by H.McKee, Quoile, Co.Down, and was still registered at Whitehaven. The four crew survived.

Name Year Built Gross Tons Length (feet) Breadth (feet) Depth (feet) Masts Figurehead Stern Lloyd's Classn.
Diadem 1839 87       2      

Sources:
  1.     "A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven", from Steve Bulman's "Images of Cumbria" website
  2.     The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles' Vol.5 by Bridget & Richard Lam ISBN1 900839 61 X. (names master as H. McKee).

Whitehaven is located within Cumbria County in northwest England, and is situated along the Irish Sea coast. In the mid 18th century, it was a larger port than Liverpool, ranking only after London and Bristol in size. The harbor dates from 1634 when the first pier was built. It expanded rapidly during the next 200 years. Whitehaven's prosperity was based on shipbuilding, the export of coal and the import of tobacco from America, along with rum and sugar from the Indies. There is also an early connection found here with the slave trade and people immigrating to America.

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