Ocean Gem

Official Number 47281

The Ocean Gem was a schooner built at Castletown, Isle of Man, in 1864. She was lengthened in 1882, and was owned in her later years on the Solway, and then in Barnstaple. The Ocean Gem was still sailing in 1935.

Sources :

1. "Schooner Sunset" by Douglas Bennet, Chatham Publishing (2001), ISBN 1 86176 176 7.
2. The photo was taken in 1913 off Dumfries - courtesy of John Searle.