Florence Emily

Official Number
52636

The schooner Florence Emily was a small schooner built by Ferguson at Connah's Quay in April 1865. She was owned in her early career by William Hancock, brick merchant at Buckley, near Chester. Millom shipowner William Postlethwaite owned her 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.
 
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. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Florence Emily, 81 tons, official number 52636, registered at Chester, owned by William Hancock, of Hawarden, Flint.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1878-9: Florence Emily, schooner, 73 tons, built by Ferguson at Chester in April 1865, official number 52636, registered at Chester, owned by W.Hancock, master Capt.S.Coppack Note: Wm.Hancock & Co. were brick merchants at Buckley, near Chester - see history of the Catherine Latham.
  4. "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol.5, names owner as J.Bennett of Millom - states master and two crew lost.
  5. Refer to Times report on Ellen Harrison page - several vessels that left the Dee estuary on the same day as the Florence Emily were lost. States three crew and the master were lost.