Louie Bell

Official Number 83988

Barrow shipowners James Fisher & Son bought twelve three-masted schooners from the Carrickfergus shipyard of Paul Rodgers, which later also supplied the Ashburners with the Result. The schooner Louie Bell was the fourth of the six wooden schooners built by Rodgers for Fishers.

A Barrow newspaper reported in 1884 that the Louie Bell had been run into by the steamer Eden in the river at Newport, Monmouthshire. Although considerable damage was done to the schooner, no lives were lost. The master at the time was Capt. Richard Halsall.

The  Louie Bell was sunk by bombs placed by a German submarine on the 26th January 1918. The schooner was waiting 15 miles NW of Cherbourg for a convoy, on passage from Treport to Runcorn with a cargo of flints. The master was Capt. Richard Iddon.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Louie Bell	1882					3

Sources :

1. Michael McCaughan "Paul Rodgers, an Ulster Shipbuilder" Maritime Wales (1983) pp46-63.
2. The Barrow Herald, 8th March 1884, page 5.
3. Lloyd's War Losses - the First World War: Casualties to Shipping through Enemy Causes 1914-1918.
4. See Naval History Net (citing from "British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-1918" published by HMSO, 1919).