Eskham

Official Number 1797

The Eskham was a sloop built at the Petty & Postlethwaite shipyard at Ulverston in April 1847.

The Eskham was owned by J.H.Barrow of Ulverston when she was lost on the 13th February 1874. She was carrying a cargo of sand from Liverpool to Barrow, but after meeting heavy seas and a SW Force 7 wind, she shipped more water than her pumps could deal with (it was thought they had been blocked by the sand cargo). The crew of two were rescued by another vessel before the Eskham foundered, 2 miles W of Fleetwood.
 

Name	Year Built	Net Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Eskham	1847	55 1478/3500				1

Sources :

1. Lancaster Shipping Register 1837-55 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.