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Official Number
45291 |
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Official Number
45291 |
The Seven Sisters was a two-masted schooner built at Barrow-in-Furness by Rawlinson & Reay. She was launched in July 1862 for the fleet of Joseph Rawlinson, and then was owned by James Fisher & Sons from October 1872 .
In the Barrow Times Shipping Intelligence columns the master of the Seven Sisters was named as Evans in Nov.1877 and in Jan.1879.
The Seven Sisters was at Stockton-on-Tees for the Census in April
1881, and the crew were listed as follows:
| Hugh Evans | M | 54 | Anglesey, Wales | Master (Seaman) |
| John Owens | M | 44 | Anglesey, Wales | Mate (Seaman) |
| John Williams | U | 24 | Anglesey, Wales | Seaman |
| Frank Rinol | U | 30 | Mins ? (B S), Germany | Seaman |
| William Tayton | U | 20 | Edinburgh, Scotland | Seaman |
| Evan Evans | U | 15 | Barrow-in-Furness | O Seaman |
| Lanetia Evans | M | 47 | Anglesey, Wales | Master's Wife |
| Grace Evans | U | 9 | Barrow-in-Furness | Master's Daughter |
The Seven Sisters foundered on the 14th October 1887, 45 miles
SE of Flamborough Head, on passage from Newcastle to Queenstown (now Cobh,
Ireland) with a cargo of coal. The six crew were rescued by the steamship
Elizabeth
Roy.
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