Dreadnaught
Official Number
43877

Despite her fearsome name, the Dreadnaught was a two-masted schooner. She was built by A.B. Gowan & Son at Berwick in 1861. She was owned for seven years by Barrow shipowner James Fisher.

The Dreadnaught was stranded at St. Tudwal's Roads, Caernarvonshire, on the 14th October, 1881. She was travelling from Barrow to Cork (? or, given the cargo, more likely Cork to Barrow) with pitwood. Her crew of five were saved. Grahame Farr provided more detail in his book "Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Wales". He  wrote that the Dreadnaught broke her anchor cable and drove ashore on Abererch beach, one mile east of Pwllheli.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Dreadnaught
1861 
 133
 
 
 
 2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
  2. Berwick Shipyard - Build List 1841-1878 - indicates that the Dreadnaught was the 8th of 26 vessels built by Gowan for James Fisher.
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