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Official Number
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Official Number
65054 |
The schooner Mary Watkinson was launched in February 1872 by A.B.Gowan & Son at Berwick-upon-Tweed, and was one of at least 26 vessels built by this firm for the Barrow fleet of James Fisher. In November 1877 her master is named as Watkinson in the listing of the Fisher fleet in the Barrow Times. In 1879 Capt. James Brockbank, who also had command of the Millom Castle, Morris's and James & Agnes, briefly had command of her, and took her into the Mediterranean.
There is a photograph in "Victorian and Edwardian Ships and Harbours from Old Photographs", captioned as a photo of Poole harbour showing Fishers "big three-masted schooner" Mary Watkinson, undated, and giving the National Maritime Museum as the source.
Although sold by Fishers in 1920 to Grounds of Runcorn, the Mary
Watkinson was the longest lived of Fisher's Berwick-built vessels.
With her new owners the schooner operated in the china clay trade betweeen
Runcorn and the ports of south Cornwall. She was lost by collision with
the steamship S.N.A.2 off the Lizard on 1st December 1927, carrying
coal from Runcorn to Looe. The
Mary Watkinson collided with a French
steamer, and all the crew managed to jump onto her from the schooner, except
for one crewman who fell and was drowned.
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