Mary Ann Bond

Official Number
16671

The Mary Ann Bond was a schooner, built at Dundee in 1856. Capt.Michael Bond was master from 1857 until early 1861, and the schooner appears to have been named in honour of his wife. The ship was surveyed at Whitehaven and was designated as a coaster. In 1867 she had some repair to her keel following an incident at Holyhead where she grounded, and indeed was reported wrecked in an Ulverston newspaper. She was re-registered at Barrow in 1869.

The Mary Ann Bond, of Barrow, from Workington for Llanelli, was reported ashore at Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, in November 1875, and "likely will become a wreck".
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Mary Ann Bond
1856
125
 87.2
20.2
11.1
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Information provided by Sue Bond from Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Mercantile Navy List, Index of Mariners and Ships at Cumbria Record Office, Barrow, the 1861 Census and Lloyd's Captains Register (1869).
  2. Supposed loss reported in the Ulverston Advertiser 2nd May 1867, and refloating reported the following week.
  3. Wreck reported in the Daily News, Tuesday 16th November 1875.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1876: Mary Ann Bond, schooner, 115 tons, built at Dundee in 1856, official number 16671, signal letters MCLJ, registered at Lancaster, owned by Thomas Gray Bissett, of Barrow.