Tower

Official Number 23904

The Tower was a flat built at Chester in 1832. John and James Fisher, Barrow shipowners, bought shares in her in 1855 and held them until her loss in 1866. In 1860 she survived being stranded at Morecambe in company with the Sportsman and several other Barrow and Ulverston vessels.

The Tower, described as a 70 ton sloop, owner James Ribchester, master Thomas Rimmer, was lost in Liverpool Bay on the 13th January 1866, in the same gale as the Bans Vale and the Furness Lass.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Tower	1832	70				1

Sources :

1. Research by Derek Blackhurst
2. Barrow Herald, 20th January 1866, p2 " The Gales: wreck of two Barrow vessels ", also p6. - submitted by Sue Bond