Fanny Slater

Official Number
45676

The Fanny Slater was a two-masted schooner built in 1862 by Bartram at Sunderland. She was one of four ships bought new that year by Samuel Jervis, a Barrow shipowner who was starting to build a fleet of vessels to operate in the Spanish ore trade (the other new vessels were Carrie Bell, Francis (built at Runcorn) and the Twin Sisters). In July 1865 the Fanny Slater was reported to be at Pomaron in company with  Carrie Bell  and other Furness vessels that included Lancashire Witch, William Stonard and Gauntlet.

On passage from Ardrossan to Runcorn with a cargo of iron ingots, the Fanny Slater was lost with all hands (Capt. E.Wharton and four crewmen), off Point of Ayre, Isle of Man, on the 1st December 1867.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Fanny Slater
1862
146
88.0 
22.2
 12.0
2
 
 
8 years A1, Special Survey 

Sources :

  1. Lloyd's Register of Shippping 1863-4: Fanny Slater, schooner, 145 tons, built in November 1862 by Bartram at Sunderland, belonging to Jarvis (sic), belonging to the port of Barrow, master Capt.Wharton.
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Fanny Slater, 146 tons, official number 45676, signal letters VFJB, registered at Lancaster, owned by Samuel Jervis, of Barrow-in-Furness.
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  3. Loss reported in "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol.5 by Richard and Bridget Larn, citing BoT Wreck Returns. States that the vessel was a brig, owned by Fisher & Co. of Barrow.