Florence Emily

Official Number 52636

The schooner Florence Emily was a small schooner built by Ferguson at Chester in April 1865. She was owned by Millom shipowner William Postlethwaite for a short period in 1890, before her loss in November of that year.

The Florence Emily sailed from Connah's Quay and anchored at Wild Road, Mostyn in the Dee estuary on the 6th November, 1890. She was bound for Belfast with a cargo of tiles and bricks, under the command of Capt. John Bennett and with two or three others aboard. No more was heard of her and she was posted "Missing" by the end of the month (see Sources 3 and 4).
 

Name	Year Built	Net Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Florence Emily	1865	73	73.7	20.0	9.1	2

Sources :

1. Research by Trevor Morgan
2. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1877 (names master as S.Coppick, owner as W.Hancock). Note: Wm. Hancock & Co. were brick merchants at Buckley, near Chester - see history of the Catherine Latham.
3. "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol.5, names owner as J.Bennett of Millom - states master and two crew lost.
4. Refer to Times report on Ellen Harrison page - several vessels that left the Dee estuary that day were lost. States three crew and the master were lost.