Thank you Diane for finding the web page of the Old Mersey Times which describes the sinking of a ship called 'Orion'. Someone else may have put a query out on the 'Orion', but I do have an MI in the Wigtown Kirkyard of a William McTaggart who was on the ship 'OBION', - he died at Telchuano, South America, January 20th 1829 aged 29 years. My daughter who is on another list put out a query on 'Obion', and a reply came back saying there was no exact match for this vessel, but there was a Schooner 'OBERON' that was in Valperiso in 1828. I still have to follow this up in Chile. The website you gave is an excellent resource. Avril