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Sportsman | Official Number
19632 |
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Sportsman | Official Number
19632 |
The Sportsman was a schooner built at Southampton in 1818. She
appears to have been bought by James Fisher, Barrow shipowner, in 1857,
after being wrecked on the Jalla Bank.
The Ulverston Mirror, 2nd June 1860;
" DISASTROUS GALE AT MORECAMBE - About five o'clock on Monday morning, the wind from N. and N.E. rose
to a perfect hurricane. Six vessels were driven from their anchors,
and stranded, all more or less damaged. They are the John
Stonard of Ulverston, Tower of Barrow;
Sportsman, of Barrow, Esther
Ann of Ulverston, Three Brothers of Liverpool and Mona's
Isle of Barrow.
The crew of the John Stonard had a very narrow escape. The vessel
heeling over when she grounded, they were for a short time, completely
submerged, but she soon righted, and the crew were rescued from their perilous
situation by the coastguard assisted by two Poulton fishermen, who gallantly
volunteered their services, when they found the coastguard could not get
their boat through the surf.
Twenty-two fishing boats were also blown ashore. Some are complete wrecks,
and the others are all more or less damaged.
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