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Official Number
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The Earl of Glasgow, described as a smack, was wrecked on Walney Island, Barrow on the 3rd January 1852, Capt. Clarke, from Liverpool for Mulroy - "drove ashore on the W coast of Walney and immediately filled. Crew saved" (Source 1, citing Lloyds List). According to the Lancaster Shipping Register however, the vessel must have been salvaged, because she was bought on the 17th January of that year by William & Richard Ashburner, Barrow shipbuilders, from her owners Thomas Roper, Benson Harrison and Montague Ainslie. The Ashburners probably repaired damage to the wrecked vessel, for they sold the sloop to a Fleetwood owner on the 19th May.
The smacks Earl of Glasgow and Melfort are mentioned in some 1858-60 papers relating to the Melfort gunpowder works, owned by Harrison Ainslie & Co., showing that they transported the product of the works. The Earl of Glasgow also appears in Ulverston harbour records in 1864-6.
Source 1 cites BoT Wreck Returns listing a 34 net ton smack, the Earl
of Glasgow, foundering 12 miles WNW of Ramsey Island, Milford Haven,
on the 30th March 1881. If this is the same vessel, then at that time she
was owned by J.Parry of Caernarvon, and was transporting a cargo of culm
from Britonferry to Caernarvon under the command of Capt. J.Owen. One of
the two crew were rescued. The vessel is said to have been built in 1843.
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