Betsy

Official Number ?????

The Betsy was a flat owned and commanded by E.Bewley of Barrow-in-Furness when she was lost ten miles NE of the Point of Ayre, Isle of Man, on the 24th April 1885. She had been carrying a coal cargo from Workington to Kirkcubbin with two crew and was lost after developing a leak in a Force 9 gale from the SSE, foundering at 5 am on Friday, 24th April. The crew, the master and a boy, took to the small boat, and after five hours were picked up by the steamship Cargan and landed at Maryport on Saturday morning.
 

Name	Year Built	Net Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Betsy	1864	42.0				1

Sources :

1. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn, pub. Lloyds Register, 2000, ISBN 1 900839 61 X.
2. Wreck reported in "The Times" newspaper, Monday, 27th April, 1885, page 10 - describes the vessel as a smack.