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Bans Vale | Official Number
16457 |
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Bans Vale | Official Number
16457 |
The Bans Vale (sometimes Barns Vale or Bansvale) was built at Lathom in 1847 and was wrecked on Taylor's Bank (in the Mersey estuary) on the 13th January 1866, according to her entry in the Lancaster Shipping Register. In 1861 her agent was the Barrow shipowner John Brewer. Her owners at this time included Barrow shipbuilder William Ashburner (16 shares), the Barrow ropemaker Joseph Hellen (16), Jon Benson (8), John Brewer (8), Joseph Goldsworthy (8).
The Liverpool Mercury, 15th January 1866;
" On Saturday, the Southport trawling
boat Alice, William Robinson,
master, was voyaging homewards, and when about nine miles from the
Liverpool banks she picked up a small boat in which were two men.They
turned out to be the crew of the sloop Tower, 70 tons, owner, James Fisher;
master, Thomas Rimmer. This vessel had left Barrow on the previous
morning, laden with pig iron, and her destination was Woodside. She was
very roughly handled by the storm which arose on Friday night and about
five o'clock next morning she commenced rapidly to fill with water and
fell over on her side. At seven o'clock her deck was so much under
water that her boat floated, and the two men forming her crew
fortunately got into it, for immediately afterwards the sloop went down
in about five fathoms of water. This occurred at about 200 yards from
the Formby lightship, but it was dark at the time, and the men having
but one oar, were driven out to sea, with no apparent chance of rescue.
It was about half-past eleven o'clock when the signal which they
hoisted on their only oar was seen by the crew of the Alice, and
shortly afterwards they were taken on board the latter vessel, having
been exposed to the wet and cold for more than four hours.
Half-an-hour after performing this deed of kindness the crew of the
trawler discovered another small boat on which were hoisted signals of
distress, and on nearing it they found it contained two men in a
well-nigh exhausted state. They were the crew of the schooner Bans Vale, 74 tons, of Ulverston.
The names of her owners are Messrs.Roper & Co., and that of her
master Christopher Hutchinson. She also left Barrow for Garston early
on Friday morning, and she was heavily laden with iron ore. The gale
from the south commenced about ten o'clock on Friday night and the
schooner beat about until four o'clock in the morning, when, her anchor
having gone, she struck on Taylor's Bank. As she appeared to be
breaking up, the crew took to their only boat and endeavoured to make
for the Formby Lightship, when unfortunately one of their oars broke
and they drifted out to sea, and at length were picked up, as already
described, about noon on Saturday."
Another Barrow vessel, the Furness Lass was lost in the same gale.
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