Royal Oak

Official Number
none

The Royal Oak was a sloop built at Ulverston in 1821. She was lost in the Horse Channel, off Hoylake, on the 7th September 1826, with the loss of all hands and passengers. She had left Ulverston the previous day with four other vessels, including the Town of Ulverston. Caught in a storm whilst trying to make the Mersey, she seems to have anchored off Hoylake, but was overwhelmed by the sea and sank, with the loss of all aboard.

The crew were Capt.Thomas Dickinson, who left a family; William Cathey, who left a widow and seven or eight children; the captain's son; and a boy named Barker, whose body was washed up at Hoylake and interred. It was believed that there had also been three or four passengers aboard.

At the time of her loss the Royal Oak was owned by Messrs.Winram & Co.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Royal Oak
1821
56
 
 
 
1
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Lancaster Shipping Register - built Ulverston 1821, sloop, 56 tons, "lost with all hands in the Horse Channel, 7th Sept.1826".
  2. The loss of the Town of Ulverston and Royal Oak was reported in detail in the Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, on the 19th and 26th September 1826.
  3. See also "The Loss of the Ulverston Traders" in the Liverpool Mercury newspaper, Friday, 22nd September, 1826, and a fuller account in the Glasgow Herald 25th September 1826.