Agnes

Official Number none

The Agnes was a schooner built at the Petty & Postlethwaite shipyard at Ulverston in May 1844. She was owned at one time by Richard Roper of Ulverston.

The Agnes was lost on the 9th June 1852 at Milford, according to the Lancaster Shipping Register. Source 2 gives more details, and states that the vessel was lost on the 11th June. The Agnes was bound from Newport to Liverpool and was wrecked on Grassholm Island, sinking in deep water. The crew were rescued by the James, of Liverpool, to where they were taken.
 

Name	Year Built	Net Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Agnes	1844	90 2576/3500				2

Sources :

1. Lancaster Shipping Register 1837-55 at Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
2. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X (citing Admiralty Wreck Returns and Lloyds List, names master as Capt. Myers).