Annie Fisher

Official Number
54536

The Annie Fisher was a brig, owned for her brief career by James Fisher & Son, of Barrow. She was built by Duncan at Garmouth and launched in December 1865, a few months after the Ann Bradshaw. On a voyage from Newport for Montreal with a cargo of steel rails, under the command of Capt.Leslie, the brig developed a leak and was abandoned in a sinking condition on the 20th May 1866. The crew of twelve were taken off by the Hamburg American screw steamer Borussia, eight days out from New York, bound for Hamburg.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Annie Fisher
1865
 249
117.0 
 23.9
 14.9
2 
 
 
 8 years A1, Special Survey

Sources :

  1. Research by Derek Blackhurst.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1865-6 (Supplement): Annie Fisher, brig, 249 gross tons, built by Duncan, at Garmouth, in December 1865, owned by J.Fisher, belonging to the port of Barrow, no master named, voyage Bnf- Mediterranean.
  3. Rescue of crew reported in the Times newspaper, Monday 28th May 1866, page 10, and in the Liverpool Mercury, Monday, 28th May 1866.