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Town of Ulverston | Official Number
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Town of Ulverston | Official Number
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The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 25th April 1826;
" On Saturday week a handsome new schooner, called the Town of Ulverston,
was launched from the building-yard of Messrs.Petty & Co., at that place. She is
intended for the Liverpool trade, under the command of that experienced
coaster, Captain John Hewitson."
The Town of Ulverston was lost in her first year of service. She departed Ulverston Canal on Wednesday, 6th September, with four other vessels, the Royal Oak, Sally, and St.George, all bound for Liverpool, and the Bee, bound for Lancaster. All these vessels were caught in a storm as they headed South, and only the St.George survived, by seeking safety at Beaumaris. The Town of Ulverston foundered off Hoylake, near the floating light, and her boat and some cargo was washed ashore near Point of Ayr lighthouse on Tuesday night, 12th September. All the five crew and the twelve passengers were drowned, but only the body of Captain Hewitson was recovered, found floating by the Ormrod steam packet and taken to Liverpool. The lost crew were Captain John Hewitson, master, 45 years old, who left a widow and six children; J.Proctor; Leonard Hewitson, the master's brother; and two others, names unknown. Of the passengers, those named by newspapers in the immediate aftermath were Mrs. Eccles, wife of Capt.Eccles, of Liverpool; her two daughters, one of whom was married; Miss Ann Bennet, daughter of Mr.Bennet, gardener, of Ulverston; Mrs.Coulston, of Ulverston, aged 75 years; Alice Dunn, and her daughter, Sarah Dunn, of Liverpool; and Mr.T.Fell, upholsterer or cabinet-maker, of Ulverston, who left a family.
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