Creek Fisher

Official Number 93418

The Creek Fisher was one of twelve three-masted schooners built by Paul Rodgers at Carrickfergus for Barrow shipowners James Fisher & Son. She was built of steel and launched in February 1890. She was owned by Fishers until 1917 when she was sold to a Belfast owner and her registry was transferred from Barrow to Belfast. She disappeared from Lloyd's Register in 1924.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Creek Fisher	1890	144				3			100A1

Sources :

1. Michael McCaughan "Paul Rodgers, an Ulster Shipbuilder" Maritime Wales (1983) pp46-63.
2. In "West Coast Shipping" by Mike Stammers (ISBN 0 85263 361 0) there is an excellent  photo of the Creek Fisher ashore at Blundellsands in 1916 (acknowledged to the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board).
3. "North Western Sail" by Alan Lockett (1978), ISBN 0 86157 002 2, page 43 (with very good photograph of the vessel ashore on Walney Island in Nov.1910).