Twin Brothers

Official Number
51084

The Liverpool, Thursday, 13th July, 1865;

" SHIP LAUNCH - On Tuesday, a schooner called the Twin Brothers, was launched from the yard of Messsrs.Dawson, Duke's Dock. She is 109 tons register, and the property of Messrs.Jervis and Co., of Barrow, being intended for the coasting trade."

photo of Twin brothers, schooner wreck, from an old postcard, courtesy of Terry Belt The Twin Brothers was a two-masted schooner built to Special Survey by John Dawson at Liverpool and launched on the 11th July 1865. She was bought by the Barrow shipowner Samuel Jervis, but in about 1870 she came under the management of Thomas Ashburner. She was briefly commanded by Capt. John Hughes prior to his taking command of the Mary Ashburner in 1878. Her masters included Capts. J.Gash (Jan.1867), E. Sharples (Jan.1870), Ace (Aug.1874), Evans (Sept.1876), Hughes (Nov.1877 to Aug.1878), Taylor (Dec. 1979), Ace (Feb. to July 1881).

The Twin Brothers operated with the Ashburner fleet in the coastal trade for some years. She was eventually sold to William Hurford, and he had her until she was lost. Carrying coal from Newport to Dungarvan under the command of Capt. Whelan, the schooner was wrecked at Ballinacourty Lighthouse, Dungarvan, in April 1909. The crew managed to save themselves by rowing the ship's small boat to shore.


Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Twin Brothers
1865
108.31
83.4 
20.7 
10.3 
2 
Eagle
Elliptic
 

Sources :

  1. "The Ashburner Schooners" by Tim Latham (1991) ISBN 0-95-16792-0-1.
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Twin Brothers, 108 tons, official no.51084, owned by Samuel Jervis, of Barrow, vessel registered at Lancaster.
  3. Masters' names from the shipping intelligence columns of the Barrow Times (at the Newspaper Library, Colindale, London).
  4. Wreck reported in Lloyd's List, 3rd and 5th April 1909.