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Official Number
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The Christiana Davis was a two-masted schooner built at Hugh Williamson's shipyard at Whitehaven. She was launched in 1864 and was initially part of the fleet of the Barrow shipowner James Ashcroft. She was first registered at Lancaster but the registry was transferred to Barrow 1876. On the original registration document Capt. James Bond is shown as the first master of the vessel. The owners at the launch are listed as follows: James Ashcroft of Barrow, ship owner (32 shares), James Taylor of Hesketh Bank, shipowner (16), Peter Wood Stark of Barrow, surgeon (4), James Bond, master mariner (4), Jane and John Brown Williamson, shipbuilder, who jointly held 8 shares.
The Christiana Davis was mortgaged to Thomas Ashburner in 1883 and within a year had been sold to him outright. Her ownership was quickly passed to William Hurford, the Ashburners' sailmaker, who was beginning to manage a small fleet of his own.
A schooner Christiana Davis, probably this same vessel, is noted
as being wrecked at Tramore in 1911 (see Source 3).
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