Ann Sumner

Official Number
16679

The Ann Sumner was a small wooden schooner built at Chester in 1857.

The Ann Sumner sank one mile N of the Newcome Knowle Buoy in Liverpool Bay on the 15th February 1888. The vessel had left Mostyn on the 14th and was bound for Douglas, Isle of Man, with a cargo of coal, under the command of Capt. William Haworth, the vessel's owner, and with two crew, Daniel Roney, mate, and the master's 16-year old son. All three were from Douglas. The body of Roney and the ship's small boat were washed ashore the following day at Hoylake, and it was assumed that the schooner had been run down, and that the crew had taken to the small boat, which had capsized. Capt.Howarth's body was washed ashore at Formby some weeks later.
 
Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Ann Sumner
 1857
59
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Lancaster Shipping Register  (at Lancashire Record Office, Preston)
  2. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Ann Sumner, schooner, 59 tons, built 1857, owned by James Ashburner, of Bardsea, registered at Lancaster, master Capt.Sumner.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Ann Sumner, official number 16679, 59 tons, registered at Lancaster, owned by George Taylor, of Runcorn, Cheshire.
  4. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyd's Register (2000) ISBN 1 900839 61 X.
  5. Wreck reported in the Isle of Man Times and General Advertiser, Saturday, 18th February, 1888, page 5.