Joseph

Official Number
27765

The Joseph was built at the Rawlinson & Reay shipyard at Hindpool in 1859. She was a two-masted schooner that started her career in Joseph Rawlinson's own fleet. From 1868 she was managed by another Barrow shipowner, James Fisher.

In March 1867 Capt. B.Wilding left the Joseph to command the newly-launched Duke of Buccleuch, but in Nov.1877 the Barrow Times Shipping Intelligence columns again noted a Capt.Wilding as master. In January 1879 the same source names Capt.Halsall as master. The Joseph was one of the vessels commanded by Capt. James Brockbank in 1875, according to his entry in the Captains' Register.

Bound from Runcorn for Flushing with a cargo of 207 tons of coal, the Joseph foundered off the Lizard at 4 am on the morning of 27th November 1895, after collision with the Newcastele-registered steamship Lindisfarne. The schooner sank within minutes of the collision and Capt.George Worth and two seamen were drowned. The mate, Tom Kinsman, was taken aboard the steamer. At a subsequent Board of Inquiry the fault for the collision was attributed to the poor lookout on the steamship, and the officers were censured or had their certificates suspended.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Joseph
1859
128
 
 
 
2
 
 
 A1, 7 years

Sources :

  1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
  2. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Joseph, schooner, 128 tons, built in 1859, registered at Lancaster, owned by Joseph Rawlinson, iron ore merchant, of Dalton, master Capt.B.Wilding.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1896: Joseph, schooner, 99 tons, built at Barrow in 1859, official number 27765, signal letters PSNW, registered at Lancaster, owned by Joseph Rawlinson, of Barrow (vessel lost by collision on 27th November 1895 and register closed).
  4. Loss reported in the Morning Post, 2nd December 1895. Report of the Inquiry in the Times, 9th, 11th & 20th January 1896.