Eugenie

Official Number 45684

The Eugenie was built by Hugh Williamson at Whitehaven in July 1863. She was a brigantine, felted and yellow-metalled to allow her to participate in deepwater trades. Initially she was registered at Lancaster. She was managed by the Barrow shipowner Thomas Ashcroft for many years, and sailed to the Mediterranean and Scandinavia.

In the Barrow Times Shipping Intelligence columns her master was named as Capt. Corlett in 1879.William Bell of Ulverston was her managing owner in 1886.

The Eugenie was sunk by collision with the full-rigged ship Erne, of London, off Blackwater Lightship, at 10.30 p.m. on Thursday, 23rd August 1888. Two of the crew were drowned, but three were picked up by the Erne and landed at Ballinacouthy (see Sources 4 and 5).
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Eugenie	1863	141	91.6	22.3	11.8				9A1

Sources :

1. The Ashburner Schooners ISBN 0-9516792-0-1
2. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1870-1 (where she is listed as a brigantine, and the master is named as J.Hesketh).
3. The log books for the Eugenie from 1872 to 1874 are held at the Lancashire County Record Office, Preston (P 168 acc 8395).
4. Barrow Shipping Register - reports vesel run down off the SE coast of Ireland on the 23rd August 1888.
5. Wreck details from the Times newspaper, Monday, 3rd September, 1888, page 7 - describes the Eugenie as a schooner.