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Official Number
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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.
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