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R & MJ Charnley | Official Number
56950 |
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R & MJ Charnley | Official Number
56950 |
The Ulverston Mirror, 30th May, 1868;
" VESSEL LAUNCH AT BARROW - On Saturday
last, a fine new three-masted schooner was launched from the slip in Mr.
W. Ashburner's shipbuilding yard, Hindpool. She was a fine model
of a vessel,and was much admired by all who saw her as she stood on the
slip. She is calculated to carry 280 tons, and registered at 154
tons, A1 at Lloyd's for eight years. She measures in length ninety-seven
eight-tenths feet, twenty-two five-tenths beam, and twelve feet deep. She is intended for the coasting and
foreign trade, and will be commanded by Captain
Robert Charnley, of the Lord Muncaster.
Her first voyage will be to the Bristol Channel, with iron ore, and her
name is the R. and M. Charnley, called after the captain and his
wife. In the afternoon, a large company of friends were entertained
at Mr.J.Brockbank's the Bowling Green Inn, where a most sumptuous dinner,
composed of everything in season, was provided in first-rate style by the
worthy host and hostess. "
The R & MJ Charnley was the first three-masted schooner built at the Ashburner shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness. She took two years to build and was launched in a heavy storm on the 23rd May 1868. She was a heavily-built schooner which could carry 280 tons of cargo, and she was destined to spend her first decade in the Spanish ore trade. Capt.Robert Charnley, who would later command the William Ashburner, was her first master.
Her last foreign voyage was in 1880 when Capt. Griffiths took her from
Liverpool to Gibraltar, then to Huelva to load an ore cargo for Connah's
Quay. Thereafter she operated only in the coasting trade. The R &
MJ Charnley had been one of the first Ashburner-built schooners to
be retained under their own management, and she was managed by Thomas Ashburner
& Co. throughout her career.
The R & M J Charnley was berthed at Newport (Monmouthshire) on Census night in April 1881, and had six crew aboard, headed by Capt.Robert Roskill.
The North-Eastern Daily Gazette, 15th December 1887;
" TERRIBLE DISASTER OFF HULL - A SCHOONER SUNK - THREE LIVES
LOST. At an early hour yesterday morning a collision occurred at the Spurn,
off the coast near Hull, between the steamer Barden Tower, of Liverpool,
and the schooner R & MJ Charnley, of Lancaster. The latter vessel
was sunk and three of her hands lost. At the time of the collision, half-past
four o'clock, the schooner is stated to have been crossing the bow of the
steamer, and to have changed her course too late to have avoided the catastrophe
which followed. The Barden Tower struck the schooner with such terrific
force as to literally cut her in two and to cause her to sink immediately.
The sunken vessel was laden with granite from Aberdeen. The master of the
Barden Tower (Capt. Wilson) used every effort to save the crew after
the collision. He cruised about the place for a considerable period and
succeeded in rescuing a youth named James Thompson, of Glasgow, and the
cook of the vessel, Henry Kennedy. The Barden Tower, which had on
board a few tons of maize and ballast, was bound from New Orleans via Havre."
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