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 M  50 Flint, Flint, Wales Master 
Isaac Williams U 46 Conway, Caernarvon, Wales Mate 
William Mcneal U 21 Antrim Kelmore OS

The Alice Fisher  was wrecked on Taylor's Bank, Crosby Channel in the River Mersey, on 17th December 1887. She was travelling from Mockross, Co.Cork, to Liverpool with a cargo of barytes.
 

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. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1870-71 (names the master as R.Mayor)
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