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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.
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