Chilton

Chilton was launched in 1802 in Whitby by Fishburn and Brodrick. After sailing to North America she became a West Indiaman, sailing between Britain and Jamaica. Between 1812 and 1817 or so she was a transport. Thereafter she traded to North America and more widely. In 1824 she rescued the survivors of a vessel that had foundered. She herself foundered in 1839. Career Chilton first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1803. , of Glasgow, foundered in June 1824 in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of four of her crew. Chilton, of Whitby, rescued the surviving crew and passengers and brought them into Miramichi. In November 1837 Thomas Chilton transferred Chiltons registry to Liverpool.