Fanny Slater

Official Number ?????

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				2

Sources :

1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
2. 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.