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Official Number
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Official Number
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Launch reported in the The Belfast News-Letter, Thursday, 10th November, 1881, page 4.
" LAUNCH AT CARRICKFERGUS - A new three-masted schooner has been launched from the ship-building yard of Mr.Paul Rodgers, at Carrickfergus. The vessel's dimensipons are:- Length, 93 feet; breadth, 22 feet; and depth of hold 9 ¾ feet. She will register under 100 tons, and carry above 200 tons, and she is classed 12 years A1 at Lloyds. The ceremony of christening was gracefuly performed by Mrs.Cox, Ramoan Rectory, Ballycastle, who named the vessel the Mary Armstead as she moved off the ways. The Mary Armstead has been built to the order of Messrs.Jas.Fisher and Sons, of Barrow-in-Furness. This is the third vessel of the same size which has been built at Carrickferguis for this enterprising firm of shipowners, and the builder has an order for another of the same size and class. The Mary Armstead is intended for the general coasting trade, and will be commanded by Capt.Jones."
Barrow shipowners James Fisher & Son bought twelve three-masted schooners from the Carrickfergus shipyard of Paul Rodgers. The two that had preceded the Mary Armstead were the Fanny Crossfield and the Mary Miller, and the schooner that followed her was the Louie Bell.
The Mary Armstead sank in collision with the steamer Bernicia four miles E of Coquet Island, Northumberland, on 29th June 1902. She was on passage from Flint to Newcastle with a salt cargo. All the crew were saved.
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