Maggie Townson

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The Maggie Townson was an iron schooner built to Special Survey by D.Noble & Co. at Barrow. She was launched in January 1878 and was owned by the Barrow shipowners J.Walton & Co.

The Maggie Townson was lost by collision in her first year of service. She fell across the bow of the steamship Trucer at the entrance to the Alfred Dock, Liverpool, on the 24th November 1878. She was carrying a cargo of cast iron ingots.

The Maggie Townson was sunk a little to the S of a line drawn between Seacombe Landing Stage and the embayment of the St.George and Prince's Landing Stages on the Liverpool side. The day following her sinking, a lightship was placed near the wreck. The following day, Tuesday 26th November, in endeavouring to avoid this lightship in thick fog, the Liverpool ferry Gem collided with the Brocklebank ship Bowfell, resulting in the loss of the lives of 19 passengers on the former vessel.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Maggie Townson	1878	149							100A1

Sources :

1. Lloyds Register 1878 names her master as Capt. E.Sharples.
2. "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" vol.5. by R & B Larn, published by Lloyds Register (2000).