Alice Fisher
 Official Number
56944

Built to Special Survey by McLea at Rothesay in July 1867, the schooner Alice Fisher was owned for her entire career by James Fisher of Barrow.

In the Barrow Times shipping intelligence columns her master was named as Conway in Nov.1877 and Iddon in Jan.1879. The Alice Fisher was berthed at Milford Haven on Census night in April 1881, and her crew were listed as follows :

Robert Conway Age 50 Flint, Flint, Wales Master 
Isaac Williams Age 46 Conway, Caernarvon, Wales Mate 
William McNeal Age 21 Antrim Kelmore Ordinary Seaman

The Alice Fisher  was wrecked in a WNW gale on Taylor's Bank, Crosby Channel in the River Mersey, on the morning of Saturday, 17th December 1887. She was travelling from Mockross, Co.Cork, to Liverpool with a cargo of barytes. The crew abandoned the schooner in their own boat and landed at Crosby.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Alice Fisher
1867
89 
79.0
20.2
9.2
 
 
 
 7A1

Sources :

  1. 1881 Census details from Bob Sanders, Ships in Port 1881 website
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1870-71 (names the master as R.Mayor).
  3. Loss reported in the Liverpool Mercury newspaper, Monday, 19th December 1887.
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