Emma

Official Number
47791

The schooner Emma was built at the Wray shipyard at Burton Stather in Lincolnshire. She was launched on the 18th August 1863. Her early owners, Hannay and Schneider, were owners of the iron and steelworks at Barrow. James Fisher managed their shipping fleet, and the Emma was the first of eight vessels built by Wray that were eventually acquired by Fisher.

Shipping Intelligence columns in the Barrow Times name the master of the Emma as Capt. Hunter in Nov.1877 and Jan.1879.

The Emma left Barrow on the 13th October 1880, with a cargo of pig iron, bound for Rotterdam. She went missing and was assumed to have foundered. Capt.T.Hunter and five crew were lost with her.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Emma
 1863
134
95.5
22.2
12.2 
2
 
 
 8 years A1

Sources :

  1. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Emma, schooner, 135 tons, owned by Robert Hannay, jun., of Ulverston, registered at Lancaster, master Capt.R.Juist.
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Emma, 135 tons, official number 47791, owned by John H.A.Schneider, of Ulverstone, Lancs., registered at Lancaster.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1874-5: Emma, schooner, 125 tons, owned by J.Fisher, belonging to port of Barrow, master Capt.H.Evans.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1880: Emma, schooner, 125 tons, built at Burton Stather in 1863, official number 47791, signal letters VQDB, owned by John Fisher, of Barrow, registered at Barrow.
  5. The Emma and the Mary Atkinson were both reported "Missing" in the Glasgow Herald newspaper, Thursday, 13th January 1881, and were probably lost in the same storm.