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Liffey Maid | Official Number
51087 |
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Liffey Maid | Official Number
51087 |
The Liffey Maid was a schooner built at Dublin in 1865. She was bought new by James Fisher and was registered at Lancaster.
The Freeman's Journal, Friday, 18th August 1865;
" LAUNCH IN THE RIVER - Yesterday evening a fine schooner
named 'The Liffey Maid' was successfully launched from the building
yard of Mr.Hugh Kelly, Sir John Rogerson's-quay. The vessel is two hundred
and thirty tons burden, and is a fine model. The following are her dimensions:-Keel,
80 feet; measurement, 86 feet; beam 21 feet; hold 10½ feet; draft
of water 10½ feet, and will shift without ballast. She is
designed to embrace all the modern improvements requisite to insure good
sailing, capacity for carriage of heavy cargoes, and constructed with the
best materials, all the work having been prepared by machinery on the premises.
She has been purchased by Mr.James Fisher, of Barrow, Lancashire, and will
be rigged and ready for sea in ten days. It is to be hoped that this trade
of ship building in this port will get the encouragement it so much stands
in need of. We are happy to hear that Mr.Kelly has received orders for
the building of several large vessels."
The Liffey Maid was sold in May 1881 to Thomas Fisher of Fleetwood. She was listed in Shipping Registers until 1918. The mate of the Liffey Maid, of Fleetwood, Charles Jones, is listed on the Mercantile Marine memorial at Tower Hill, London, died 25th August 1917.
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