Fairy

 Official Number
43876

The Fairy, a schooner registered at Lancaster, foundered in a gale five miles SWof the Tuskar Rock at 5am on the 11th June 1862, whilst under the command of Capt. Michael Bond. A note appended to his master's certificate gives the following details:

" Borough of Liverpool - to wit, I  Michael Bond of Ulverstone in the County of Lancaster, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do solemnly and sincerely declare that I was Master of the Schooner 'Fairy' of Lancaster and that on the 11th June 1862 the said vessel foundered in St.George's Channel (when on a voyage from Barrow to Newport) and that we did not save a single article of any description more than the clothes we stood in at the time of her going down and that my Certificate of Service as Master no.49681 was lost with the said vessel and that this declaration is mark for the purpose of getting a Duplicate of said Certificate."

The Fairy had been carrying a cargo of iron ore. The crew of four had abandoned the schooner in their own small boat, but in attempting to land near near Cahore the boat was capsized and one man was drowned, the other three being saved by the efforts of a local fisherman, Peter Connor.

Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Fairy
1861 
 82
 
 
 
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Information provided by Sue Bond - Capt.Bond was issued with a new certificate (number 74506) on the 30th March1863.
  2. "Shipwreck Index of Ireland" by Richard and Bridget Larn (2002) ISBN 1 900839 03 2 - citing from BoT Wreck Returns.
  3. Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury, Monday, 16th June 1862, and the Freeman's Journal, Tuesday, 17th June 1862 (citing from the Wexford Independent).