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Official Number
51080 |
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Official Number
51080 |
The schooner William & Sarah was built to Special Survey by Duncan at Garmouth in May 1865. She was owned by Barrow's James Fisher from her launch until 1886, when he sold the schooner to Paul Rodgers, the Carrickfergus shipbuilder. Possibly this sale was part-payment for one of the three-masted schooners that Rodgers was building for Fisher at this time.
The William & Sarah was lost on the morning of Thursday 29th
November 1888. She was bound from Barrow to Ayr with a cargo of iron ore,
under the command of Capt. Thomas Lang, of Drogheda, who was also her owner.
At about 0300 she struck the NE end of the Bahama Bank off the Isle of
Man. Although badly damaged, she was floated off and tried to make the
safety of Peel. Off Rue Point it became clear that the schooner could no
longer be kept afloat, and the master decided to drive her ashore. The
five crew abandoned their vessel in the small boat and safely made the
shore. The William & Sarah became a total wreck.
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