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Official Number
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The Esther Ann was a schooner built at the Petty & Postlethwaite shipyard at Ulverston in 1856.
From Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser, 3rd Nov.1859 :
" REPORTED SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE.-We regret to have to state that serious apprehensions exist concerning the safety of the Twin Sisters, of Barrow, belonging to Mr.James Fisher of that place. She was bound from South Wales to Liverpool and nothing has since been heard of, but her boat has been cast up in Wales. The Iron Age also bound for Liverpool from Barrow has not been heard of, and a vessel which left the same port two days after her has arrived safe. Fears are also entertained for the safety of the Wyre as she has not yet been reported. The Esther Ann is stranded near to the wreck of the Royal Charter, but is expected to be got offf with little damage."Elsewhere in the same edition of the Advertiser, part of a long article describing the aftermath of the Royal Charter wreck, in a paragraph headed "Cause of the disaster", it says :
" That a vessel within range of such a lee shore could not make headway against the tempest is shown by the fact that, in the deepest indent of Red Wharf Bay, about three miles to the eastward (near Beaumaris), a schooner lies stranded, whose crew were in the rigging from ten o'clock on Tuesday night to nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, then rescued by a fishing boat: and almost four miles to the westward a brig is also on shore, on one of whose crew the coroner held an inquest before he came to Llanellgar Church. "From Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser, 7th June 1860 :
" The Esther Ann:- We are happy in being able to state that the schooner Esther Ann, built by Messrs. Petty and Postlethwaite, of this town, was not damaged by the recent storm, as reported in our last week's Advertiser. The Esther Ann encountered the terrific gale, off the Welsh coast, in which the Royal Charter was lost, and she is the schooner about which the Times newspaper, of that date, stated that the Life-boat was unable to approach. On this memorable occasion, though all her sails were blown away by the violence of the gale, the tight and trim schooner rode through the tempest, and did not receive the slightest injury in her hull. "The initial report of damage mentioned above is included on the page for the Sportsman, also damaged at that time. In the same edition of the newspaper as the account above, there is reported the outcome of the meeting of the Barrow-in-Furness Mutual Ship Insurance Co., in which the total loss of the Twin Sisters and the 3-masted schooner Iron Age is confirmed. It also reports payments made to the Esther Ann "for damage in Redwharf Bay", and later states "all these casualties were caused by the storm in the latter part of October".
The Esther Ann foundered outside Albert Dock, Liverpool, after
being run down by the barquentine Yucatan on the 13th October 1890.
She had travelled from Carnforth Quay, Co.Donegal with a cargo of bog ore,
and was bound for Runcorn. Two crew and two passengers survived the collision.
| Name | Year Built | Net Tons | Length (feet) | Breadth (feet) | Depth (feet) | Masts | Figurehead | Stern | Lloyd's Classn. |
| Esther Ann | 1856 | 65 | 2 | 7A1 |
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