Frederick Stonard

Official Number
28008

The Frederick Stonard was a schooner built by E.J.Schollick at the Canal Foot shipyard, Ulverston, and was launched on Wednesday, 31st July 1861. She was one of the six vessels built there for the Stonard family (see Alfred Stonard and Edward Stonard). Her first commander was Capt.John Parker, late of the Dora, and the vessel was copper-fastened, so seemingly intended for foreign trade.

The Frederick Stonard was reported wrecked on several occasions. According to the Pembrokeshire Wrecks website she was  stranded at Stack Rock, Milford, on 10th August 1880. However, she reappeared in time for the April 1881 Census. The Frederick Stonard was berthed at Ilfracombe with five crew aboard, including master George Robinson, of Amlwch.

The Frederick Stonard foundered in a NNW Force 10 in St. George's Channel, 40 miles SW of the Smalls on the 26th October 1890. She was bound from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Ballinacurra with a cargo of coal and bricks, under the command of Capt.E.Robinson, and with a crew of five. The crew were picked up by the Hispania and landed at Liverpool

Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Frederick Stonard
 1861
123
 85.5
21.4 
11.2 
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Launch reported in the Lancaster Gazette newspaper, Saturday, 3rd August 1861, page 8.
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Frederick Stonard, 123 tons, official number 28008, signal letters PTQD, registered at Lancaster, owned by Edward Jones Strollick (sic), of Aldingham Hall, near Ulverstone, Lancashire.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1877 (builder named as Schollick, owner as T. Morgan & Co., master as Capt. T.Jones)
  4. 1881 Census Ilfracombe
  5. Pembrokeshire Wrecks website
  6. Loss information from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol.5 by R & B Larn (pub.2000): names owner as T.Morgan of Anglesey. Also reported in the Belfast News-Letter, 29th October 1890.