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Lake Fisher | Official Number
93417 |
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Lake Fisher | Official Number
93417 |
The Belfast
News-Letter, Friday, 7th February 1890;
" LAUNCH - Yesterday morning, at high
water, a four-masted schooner named the Lake Fisher was launched from
Messrs.MacIlwaine & McColl's shipbuilding yard. The vessel is
altogether a unique one of the class, and is the first four-masted
schooner built in Belfast. The schooner, which has been constructed to
the orders of Messrs.Thomas Fisher & Sons, Barrow-in-Furness, was,
when launched, completely fitted out and ready for sailing, and was
immediately taken over by her captain and crew. She will sail between
Liverpool and Buenos Ayres, and has been especially designed for the
trade in which she will be engaged. Shortly after being launched the
compasses were adjusted and the schooner will leave this port on Monday
next on her maiden trip. Her dimensions are:- Length between
perpendiculars, 145 feet; breadth, 25 feet 6 inches; depth to the top
of the floors, 10 feet 9 and a half inches. Mr Thomas Fisher was
present at the launch, which was carried out successfully."
Possibly the only four-masted schooner
ever
built in Britain, according to Basil Greenhill, the Lake Fisher was launched
in February 1890. She had iron frames and steel plates on her hull. The
Lake Fisher made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Rio
Grande in 47 days. She departed the Mersey on her second voyage, to the
same destination, on the 28th October 1890, with a cargo of coal and a
crew of nine. She was never seen again, and was posted missing
on the 2nd March 1891. The crew who were lost with her were:
| Capt.Joseph Urell,
master, of Pembroke Dock |
George Elsom, chief
officer, of Plymouth |
Charles Sillence, cook and steward, of Southampton |
| D.Laing, AB, of
Kirkcaldy |
D.Tracy, AB, of
Liverpool |
Oscar Blomguist, AB, of Gothland |
| Adolph Andersen, OS,
of Norway |
Thomas Williams, OS,
of Liverpool, |
William Cotter, boy, of India |
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