Completed August 1863; Yard No. 51; Official No. 47502; Code Letters VNTQ.
Owners: 1863 Peter Stuart & Douglas, Liverpool; December 1867 John Bellamy (son of Peter Stuart) Liverpool.
Masters: 12 August 1863 John Jennings (C.N. 12621); 1863-68 Calvert; 1868-69 Donaldson.
Miscellaneous: 25 October 1867 from London for Bombay she collided with the brigantine Eureka in the Atlantic Ocean. An inquiry was held at the Admiralty Court, Westminster instituted on behalf of the owners of the late brigantine Eureka and her cargo, to recover for the total loss of that vessel with her cargo by collision. The case occupied four days with the Court finding that the John Bellamy had failed to prove her lights were exhibited, and that she was solely to blame for the collision.
The John Bellamy left Calcutta on 10 April 1869 bound for London with a full general cargo & went ashore just north of Cape Negrais on the coast of Burma on 18 April 1869. She was abandoned the same day as she was full of water & her mainmast was through her bottom. The crew were picked up & landed at Bassein. The wreck was sold in May 1869.
Berry, Henry, sails, 51, Ayr
Burton, Joseph, cook, 22, Pennsylvania
Calvert, Joseph, master
Carroll, Patrick, ordinary seaman, 25, Waterford
Casey, Thomas, able seaman, 22, Dublin
Cunningham, N, steward, 21, Dublin
Dryden, TJ, 2nd mate, 24, Swansea
Fayne, Donis, able seaman, 21, Dublin
Hewxman, Henry, ordinary seaman, 23, London
Hogland, Gusty, able seaman, 23, Sweden
Hutchings, James, able seaman, 30, Sweden
Hutchison, Andrew, able seaman, 24, Aberdeen
Johnson, David, able seaman, 31, Aberdeen
McCarthy, Jeremiah, engine driver, 25, London
Miller, David, able seaman, 23, Cornwall
Murray, Edward, able seaman, 30, Cork
Payner, Thomas, painter, 23, Westminster
Pyemont, EE, cook, 33, London
Raab, Mathias, carpenter, 28, Germany
Rylanium, John, able seaman, 27, Liverpool
Shields, James, able seaman, 30, Sweden
Talman, AU, ordinary seaman, 19, London
Tielling, George, able seaman, 22, Hamburg
Tornson, T, able seaman, 25, Sweden
Torvus, David, mate, 28, Perth
Wills, J, able seaman, 19, Salcombe
Worchers, Benjamin, boatswain, 45, Norfolk
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