Lily Baynes
 Official Number
68212

Built by the Furness Ship Building Company at Barrow-in-Furness in 1872, the Lily Baynes sailed for the fleet of James Fisher for 35 years. She was a two-masted schooner.

The Lily Baynes was berthed at Milford Haven on Census night in April 1881. The crew were :
 

Hugh Edmondson  M  21  Tarleton, Lancashire Master
John Stevens  U 21  Hayle, Cornwall Mate 
Alfard Swenson U 21  Gotenborg, Sweden  AB
Fredeck William Haines U 19  London, Middlesex OS

The Lily Baynes foundered eight miles SW of South Stack, Anglesey, on the 22nd December 1909. She was on passage from Redbridge, Hampshire, to Belfast with a cargo of cast iron railway chairs. Her crew of four were rescued by the Ellerman Line steamship Perim.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Lily Baynes
1872
 
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
  2. 1872 Crew List
  3. Report of loss in "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles Vol.5" by  Richard and Bridget Larn.
  4. 1881 Census details from Bob Sanders, Ships in Port 1881 website
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