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Launch reported in Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 20th September 1849:
" PENNY BRIDGE, SHIP LAUNCH AT GREENODD - A new and splendid vessel was launched into its future element amid mirth and music on Tuesday last. It was built by Mr. Richard Ashburner and is supposed to be the largest and most handsome which has been seen so far up the estuary for a great number of years. It is called Ann Rennison and is thought to be about 180 tons burthen. "The Ann Rennison was a two-masted schooner, the largest vessel built by Richard Ashburner at his Greenodd shipyard. She was owned by two millers from Cark, Edward Hall and Joseph Allenby, and her first master was Capt. William Henry Ainsworth.
The Ann Rennison was commanded by Capt. Isaac Stones of Ulverston
in October 1852 when she was lost on a voyage from Ulverston to Bristol
with iron ore. She had endured stormy weather all down the coast, losing
some of her sails off Holyhead and finally foundering at Scarweather Sands
in Swansea Bay. The crew saved themselves by taking to their small boat,
and they landed at Porthcawl. Their rail fares home were paid for by the
Fishermans' Society, to which Capt. Stones belonged.
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