Bridget Annie

Official Number
76883

The Bridget Annie was an iron schooner built to Lloyd's Special Survey by D.Noble & Co. at Barrow. She was launched in September 1877 and was owned by the Barrow shipowner Thomas Ashcroft.

The Bridget Annie was lost whilst under the ownership of Barrow shipowner William Walton. Like the Florence Emily, the schooner was carrying a cargo of bricks and tiles from Connah's Quay to Belfast, and was also under the command of a man named Bennett, and with three other men aboard. Both schooners were last seen on the 6th November 1890, the Bridget Annie briefly off the Isle of Man.  Both schooners were posted "missing", lost with all hands.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Bridget Annie
1877
110
 95.2
 19.6
    8.6
 3
 
 
100A1, Special Survey

Sources :

  1. Mercantile Navy List 1880: Bridget Annie, schooner, 100 tons, built at Barrow in 1877, official number 76883, owned by James Ashcroft, registered at Barrow.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4: Bridget Annie, off.no.76883, iron schooner, 110 gross tons, owned by J.Ashcroft, then W.H.Walton, registered at Barrow, master Capt.J.Taylor.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1889-90: Bridget Annie, iron 3-masted schooner, 110 gross tons, owned by W.H.Walton, registered at Barrow, master Capt.J.Taylor.
  4. Refer to Ellen Harrison page for the newspaper report of the several vessels that left the Dee river and were lost or wrecked in the gale of early November 1890.