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Official Number
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Official Number
28002 |
The Bridget Smith was a two-masted schooner built by A.B.Gowan & Son at Berwick in July 1860.
From Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser, 5th July, 1860.
" SHIP LAUNCH.—On Saturday afternoon last, a beautiful schooner, named the Bridget Smith, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. A. B. Gowan & Son, shipbuilders, Berwick. About four o'clock a large crowd, including a number of ladies and gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, assembled in the yard, on the Quay Walls, and on the adjoining quay, to witness the launch; and a little before five all preliminaries having been satisfactorily arranged, the vessel gracefully glided into the water—the ceremony of "christening" being performed in gallant style by Miss Ramsey, Lilburn Grange. Loud cheers hailed the first movement of the vessel on the ways, and they were vociferously repeated when she dropped anchor in the middle of tbe stream. She is to sail, we believe, from Barrow, and is the property of the same owners who have purchased the last three or four vessels built by Messrs. Gowan. She is a handsome and substantial craft; well adapted for carrying, and reflects much credit on the builders. (The above schooner has been built for Messrs. Jas. Fisher and Co., and is intended for the Bristol Channel trade.) "The Bridget Smith was owned by the Barrow shipowner James Fisher until her sale in 1895. In the shipping intelligence columns of the Barrow Times her master is named as Halsall in Nov.1877 and Jones in Jan.1879.
The Bridget Smith was sunk by collision in the river Mersey on
the 18th January 1902. She was subsequently raised and used as a barge
by the Rea Towing Company.
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