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Sisters | Official Number
17296 |
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Sisters | Official Number
17296 |
The Sisters was a sloop-rigged flat built at Ulverston in 1815. She was owned originally by Richard Latham & Co. of Broughton-in-Furness, then by George Latham, also of Broughton and variously described as an ironmaster (of Duddon Furnace) and as a maltster. George Latham became sole owner of the vessel in 1828, but he died in 1858 and the ownership passed eventually to Robert Hannay and then, in 1862, to James Fisher of Barrow.
The Sisters was commanded by John Brockbank (1815), James Ferguson (1825), John Clarke (1826), Thomas Robinson (1826), Thomas Proctor (1832), John Carmichael (1841), Joseph Burrow (1844), James Pernie (1849), James Ross Kelly (1853), Richard Charnley (1853), Ralph Branthwaite (1860), Richard Ball (1862), Richard Watkinson (1865), Robert Caterall (1868), Isaac Myers (1869) and Owens (1870).
Lloyd's List, 21st April 1870;
" Douglas, I.o.M. 19th April: The Sisters, flat, of Barrow, Owens, from Liverpool for this port,
with coals and petroleum, carried away her main gaff, boom etc. and became
leaky off Castletown yesterday. The master and crew landed for assistance
but owing to a change of wind the vessel drifted away and has not since
been heard of."
The Whitehaven News, 28th April 1870;
" Last week a flat called
the Sisters from Liverpool to Douglas laden with coal and petroleum
oil was abandoned off Kirksanton Head. The crew took to the small boat
and made for Castletown which they reached early in the evening. The cause
of the abandonment was that while the vessel was labouring in a very heavy
rolling sea, with little wind, the mainsheet broke, and before the crew
(a man and a boy) could secure it the boom broke adrift from the mast and
she was abandoned."
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