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. Her first master was Capt.William Bond.

The Lily Baynes was berthed at Milford Haven on Census night in April 1881. There were four crew aboard, headed by Captain Hugh Edmondson, of Tarleton. 

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
 91
 82.5
20.2 
 10.0
2
 
 
9 years A1

Sources :

  1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1872-3 (Supplement): Lily Baynes, schooner, 91 tons, built by the Furness Ship Building Company at Barrow in October 1872, official number 68212, owned by J.Fisher, registered at Barrow, master Capt.W.Bond.
  3. 1872 Crew List
  4. 1881 Census details from Bob Sanders, Ships in Port 1881 website.
  5. Mercantile Navy List 1907: Lily Baynes, schooner, 80 tons, built at Barrow in 1872, official number 68212, registered at Barrow, managing owner Jas.Fisher, of Fisher's Buildings, Barrow.
  6. Report of loss in "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles Vol.5" by  Richard and Bridget Larn.
  7. Wreck noted on the Coflein website of the Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.