Bridget Annie

Official Number ?????

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

In the Barrow Times shipping intelligence columns in January 1879 her master was named as Capt. Taylor.

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. Another unnerving coincidence is that 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							100A1

Sources :

1. Lloyds Register 1878
2. Wreck info from Vol.5 of "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" by Richard & Bridget Larn (pub.2000).
3. 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.