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.

The Liverpool Mercury, 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."

Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Colin Russell
1850
46.0 
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Mercantile Navy List 1868: Collin Russell, 44 tons, official number 1267, signal letters HJGM, registered at Strangford, owned by William Russell, of Mann Street, Strangford.
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1880: Collin Russell, schooner, 47 tons, built at Strangford in 1850, official number 1267, signal letters HJGM, registered at Barrow, owned by William G.Russell, of Barrow.
  3. Loss information from 'The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles' Vol.5 (West Coast of England and Wales) by Bridget & Richard Larn published by Lloyd's 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.