Ada

Official Number 70487

The Ada was a 133 ton two-masted schooner, the last vessel built at the Ulverston shipyard of Richard and William Charnley. She was completed there by John Peet and launched in July 1876. In her early years she was part of the fleet of James Geldart, a Barrow shipowner. The Ada was to become one of the longest surviving Furness schooners, ending her days as a floating museum on the Gannel River near Newquay, Cornwall. It appears that she was destroyed by fire in about 1953 (Source 4).
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Ada	1876	133	88.6	22.3	11.5	2

Sources :

1. The Ashburner Schooners, ISBN 0-95-16792-0-1
2. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1922-3 (names owner and master as W.Gregory)
3. Photograph showing the vessel with painted ports at Newquay appears in  the book "Coastwise Sail" by John Anderson.
4. Information from John Layte, Newquay resident.