Lot 456: The snow Maybrough off Flushing, 1847

Petrus Cornelis Weyts (Belgian, 1799-1857) The snow Maybrough off Flushing, 1847 signed and inscribed 'P. Weyts. Antwerp' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'Maybrough of Newcastle. Cap. t. R. Stephenson passing Flushing. 1847' (lower centre) oil on glass 21½ x 28 in. (54.5 x 71 cm.)3

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Designed and rigged as a snow, the 247-ton Maybrough was built at Sunderland in 1840 and owned by the Gateshead & Tyne Shipping Co. of Newcastle. Under her first master Captain Cooper, she began her career sailing out of Shields on a regular run to the Cape of Good Hope and continued on this route until 1845 when, under a new master Captain Stephenson, she spent a couple of years trading to the Mediterranean ports out of Liverpool. Sold to Dryden & Co. in 1847, her new owners kept her in the Mediterranean trade (out of North Shields) until 1859 when she disappears from record.