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Official Number
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Official Number
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The two-masted schooner Kate was built by William White at Canal Side, Ulverston in November 1874. Like the Mabel, built in the following year at the same shipyard, she immediately entered the fleet of William Postlethwaite. She stayed in this Millom fleet until sold to Capt. Louis Aldridge of Arlingham, Gloucestershire, on the 16th June 1911.
In the book "Schooner Captain", Capt. Hugh Shaw mentions that he bought
the Kate in 1911, together with Capt. Aldridge, his father-in-law.
Capt. Shaw left the Sarah Latham to take command of her. He tells
of surviving an Irish Sea gale at Christmas, 1912, that caused the loss
of the Harvest Queen. He stayed with the Kate throughout
the First World War, employing her in the cross-channel trade and
surviving an encounter with a U-boat in 1918. In 1920 he had an engine
fitted to the schooner, and then in 1922 he left the Kate to the
charge of his brother, Capt. William Shaw. The schooner was sold by the
Shaw family in 1928. I don't know her ultimate fate.
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