The Colonial Despatches: Briseis

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According to this despatch, briseisBriseis was a freight ship chartered by the British government in 1858 to carry supplies to Vancouver Island and the mainland for the Royal Engineers. An enclosure with the same notes the destruction by Fire of the Barque Briseis on 8 December 1858.

Both this private correspondence and this document confirm that briseisBriseis never made its destination: it burned at sea off the coast of Brazil, with hundreds of tonnes of uninsured supplies on board. Finally, this private correspondence mentions that Shaw, Savill and Company acted as brokers for the ill-fated briseisBriseis.

Mentions of this vessel in the documents

Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 9 October 1858, CO 60:3, no. 10315, 317.
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to Douglas, Sir James 22 January 1860, LAC :, 82.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 25 October 1859, CO 60:5, no. 12502, 216.
Hart, William H. A. to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 25 September 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9830, 151.
Corry, Henry Thomas Lowry to Merivale, Herman 11 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10358, 27.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Merivale, Herman 27 September 1858, CO 60:3, no. 9888, 304.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 26 October 1858, CO 60:3, no. 10962, 354.
Hawes, Benjamin to Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 18 January 1860, CO 60:9, no. 603, 257.
Richards, Charles to Carnarvon, Earl 25 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10949, 52.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 18 November 1858, CO 60:3, no. 12419, 383.
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to Douglas, Sir James 1 July 1859, LAC :, 185.
Storks, Major General Henry Knight to Merivale, Herman 2 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10081, 380.
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Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 16 July 1859, CO 60:6, no. 7113, 191.
Storks, Major General Henry Knight to Carnarvon, Earl 5 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10182, 389.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 26 October 1858, CO 60:3, no. 10963, 358.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Irving, Henry Turner 11 October 1858, CO 60:3, no. 10409, 333.
Storks, Major General Henry Knight to Merivale, Herman 1 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9977, 372.
Richards, Charles to Carnarvon, Earl 16 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10586, 51.
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 12 February 1859, LAC :, 112.
Hawes, Benjamin to Fitzgerald, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey 9 March 1859, CO 60:6, no. 2619, 262.
Schedules
Hawes, Benjamin to Carnarvon, Earl 23 February 1859, CO 60:6, no. 2096, 253.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 26 March 1860, CO 60:9, no. 3192, 187.
Romaine, William Govett to Carnarvon, Earl 28 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 11058, 53.
Schedules
Hawes, Benjamin to Carnarvon, Earl 14 April 1859, CO 60:6, no. 4081, 273.
Storks, Major General Henry Knight to Merivale, Herman 23 November 1858, CO 60:2, no. 12057, 393.
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 16 October 1858, LAC :, 259.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Merivale, Herman 24 September 1858, CO 60:3, no. 9808, 289.
Shaw, Savill and Company to Carnarvon, Earl 3 February 1859, CO 60:6, no. 1273, 634.
Godley, John Robert to Merivale, Herman 16 September 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9516, 368.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 10 May 1859, CO 60:6, no. 4823, 140.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Merivale, Herman 24 September 1858, CO 60:3, no. 9821, 295.
Corry, Henry Thomas Lowry to Merivale, Herman 2 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10073, 17.
Richards, Charles to Carnarvon, Earl 2 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10075, 19.
Schedules
Hawes, Benjamin to Carnarvon, Earl 11 April 1859, CO 60:6, no. 3913, 269.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 15 September 1858, CO 60:3, no. 9485, 270.
Schedules
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 9 May 1859, CO 60:4, no. 6507, 354.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Merivale, Herman 28 September 1858, CO 60:3, no. 9887, 301.
Hawes, Benjamin to Merivale, Herman 10 February 1859, CO 60:6, no. 1495, 250.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 20 April 1860, CO 60:7, no. 5821, 184.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 30 January 1863, CO 60:15, no. 3135, 58.
Corry, Henry Thomas Lowry to Carnarvon, Earl 13 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10430, 29.
Corry, Henry Thomas Lowry to Merivale, Herman 5 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10184, 21.
Douglas, Sir James to Stanley, Lord Edward Henry 19 August 1858, CO 60:1, no. 10342, 86.

The Colonial Despatches Team. Briseis. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/briseis.html.

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