Annie Park
 Official Number
93411

The Annie Park was one of twelve three-masted schooners built by Paul Rodgers at Carrickfergus for Barrow shipowners James Fisher & Sons. She was built of steel with iron floors and one cemented bulkhead, and was launched in October 1886. In Lloyds Register of 1887 her master was named as Capt.I.Willian.

The Annie Park was lost on New Year's Day 1906 off St.Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire. She was carrying whiting from London to Lancaster, and was stranded in a Force 9 gale. The master and three crew were drowned, but two others were saved by coastguard George Calder, who was awarded the Board of Trade silver medal for descending the cliffs to effect the rescue.
 

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Annie Park
 1886
214
134.2 
24.1
10.1
 3
 
 
100A1 

Sources :

  1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1887-8
  2. Michael McCaughan "Paul Rodgers, an Ulster Shipbuilder" Maritime Wales (1983) pp46-63.
  3. Report of loss in "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" by  Richard and Bridget Larn: info supplied by Bill Butland.
  4. "Coastguard!" by William Webb, pub. HMSO (1976).
  5. Full list of the 12 schooners built by Rodgers for Fisher in the history of the Fanny Crossfield.
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