Ann Crewdson

Official Number 68228

The Ann Crewdson was built at Ulverston in December 1873, at the shipyard of Richard & William Charnley. She was a two-masted schooner and was owned by Millom's William Postlethwaite until she was sold on the 2nd July 1885.

In a Force 10 gale from the NNE the Ann Crewdson was stranded and lost on Great Yarmouth beach on the 19th November 1893.  She was bound from Northfleet to Peterhead with a cargo of cement, under the command of Capt. P.Cameron and with four others aboard. At the time the schooner was  registered at Chester  and was owned by J. Flint Gordon in Scotland.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Ann Crewdson	1873	152	96.3	23.1	11.7	2			9A1

Sources :

1. Research by Trevor Morgan
2. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1877 (names master as J.Crewdson)
3. Report of loss in "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" by  Richard and Bridget Larn: info supplied by Bill Butland.