Ann Sumner
 Official Number
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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 was on passage from Mostyn to Douglas, Isle of Man, with a cargo of coal, under the command of Capt. W.Haworth and with two others aboard. The schooner foundered in only a NNE Force 6, but all three crew were lost.
 
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. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X.
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