Collin Russell

Official Number 1267

The schooner Collin Russel (sic) was listed in the fleet of the Barrow shipping company of James Fisher and Son in the Barrow Times shipping intelligence columns, 11th January 1879. Her master was named as Capt. Cookson and she was at Duddon from Lancaster.

From the Liverpool Mercury newspaper, Monday, 20th September 1880, page 6;

"About half-past three o'clock on Saturday morning, the schooner Colonel (sic) Russell, laden with gravel from Laxey, Isle of Man, for Liverpool, grounded between No.2 and 3 black buoys in the Queen's Channel, and sank. The master, Henry Carrington, and the crew (three men) were saved in their own boat, and got on board the Formby Lightship, whence they were brought to Liverpool on Saturday forenoon."

Sources :

1. 1857 Mercantile Navy List gives the name as Collin Russell, registered at Strangford.
2. Loss information from 'The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles' Vol.5 (West Coast of England and Wales) by Bridget & Richard Larn published by Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN1 900839 61 X. Gives wind condition as SSW Force 6, and states that the owner at the time of wreck was W.G.Russell of Barrow-in-Furness, and that the vessel was wrecked on Jordan Flats in Liverpool Bay.