| The North Barrule was a two-masted
wooden schooner built by K.Graves at Ramsey in the Isle of Man in 1880.
From 1909 to1925 the schooner was owned by J.Carswell and Sons of
Dalbeattie.
She was sold to William Bennet of Connah's Quay on the 31st July 1925.
Like the Margaret Ann,
another Solway-owned vessel, she was one of the earliest schooners to be
fitted with an auxiliary motor. She seems to have stayed at Connah's Quay
well into the 1930's, and in February 1937 (see photo) she survived grounding
in the Menai Straights, Anglesey. Source 2 states that the vessel was lost
at either Nevin (North Wales) or the Menai Straights, but does not give
a date.
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