Jane

Official Number
1688

The schooner Jane was built in 1850 at Winsford, Cheshire. She was owned by Joseph Rawlinson in 1855 and was bought by James Fisher from his fellow Barrow shipowner in 1872. The Jane was owned by Fisher until her loss in October 1881. The Jane went missing whilst on passage from Connah's Quay to Belfast with a cargo of bricks (19th October 1881).

Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Jane
1850
 59
 
 
 
 2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
  2. Lancaster Shipping Register 1837-55 at Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1880: Jane, schooner, 59 tons, built at Winsford in 1850, official number 1688, signal letters HLBN, registered at Lancaster, owned by John Fisher, of Ballymena (NB. The same owner owned another schooner named Jane, also registered at Lancaster, official number 1828).