Manx Queen

Official Number 78218

The Manx Queen was an iron barque built to special survey by D.Noble & Co. at Barrow. She was launched in October 1878 and was bought by an owner in the Isle of Man, R.G Karran of Castletown. In 1899 the barque was sold to William Collins Jarvis, a master mariner from Devon. The Manx Queen was abandoned at sea in February 1902, without loss of life.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Manx Queen	1878	317	150.7	25.4	11.6	3			100A1

Sources :

1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1879
2. Wreck reported in "A History of Local Sailing Ships", by H.Peck, in "Proceedings of the Barrow Naturalists Field Club" Vol. 7 (1951).
3. Wreck listed in the Times, 21st February, 1902, page 13.
4. Sue Bond tells me that there is a painting of the "Manx Queen, built by D.Noble of Barrow, Sumatra, Whitehaven, Master T.W.Karran "at the Nautical Museum (now known as "The Peggy Story"), Castletown, Isle of Man.