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James & Mary | Official Number
56700 |
The James & Mary was a schooner built at Matthew
Simpson's
shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster. She was launched on Thursday, 17th
October 1867, and was the second of many schooners built by Simpson to
be acquired by owners in Fleetwood for management by Edmund Porter,
having been preceded by the Dairy Maid. The James & Mary
was made very strong to carry pig iron and ore cargoes, and could carry
220 tons on a register tonnage of 140. The third of Simpson's schooners
to enter the Porter fleet was the Result, built the following year.
In December 1894 the James & Mary was on passage from Par to Runcorn with a cargo of china clay, under the command of Capt.T.Williams and with four other crewmen aboard. On the 22nd December, caught in a Force 11 storm from the SW, she saught shelter in the Ribble, but struck the banks off Spencer's Brow, off Southport. The five crew were taken off by the Southport lifeboat, and the abandoned vessel was swept onto the beach at Birkdale. Her cargo was subsequently removed by lighter, but the wreck was further damaged in subsequent gales.
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