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Official Number
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Official Number
83974 |
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 Mary Miller was the second of the six wooden schooners built by Rodgers for Fishers, and was launched in April 1881.
In 1920 the Mary Miller was sold by Fishers to Grounds
of Runcorn in 1920, who bought many of the Fisher fleet. She was resold
in about 1931 to an Irish owner, and then to Couch of Fowey in about 1938.
She operated in the china clay trade for a time, and was at this time one
of the last two engine-less sailing ships in operation in the UK.
She was fitted with a motor at the start of WW2, and she was then
used as a balloon anchorage at Greenock. She was later used as a houseboat
in the River Mersey and survived until the 1960's.
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