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James &
Mary
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Official
Number
56700 |
The James & Mary was a schooner built at Matthew
Simpson's
shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster in October, 1867. Like several of
Simpson's
other schooners, she entered the fleet of E.Porter and Co. of
Fleetwood, and was registered at that port.
<>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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Name
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Year Built
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GrossTons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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James & Mary
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1867
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142
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92.6
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22.5
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11.2
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2
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8 years A1
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Sources :
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1868-9: schooner, master J.Gornall.
- Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by
Richard
& Bridget Larn.
- Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury, 25th December 1895 and
also in Reynold's Newspaper, 23rd Dec.(though the vessel is identified
as the James Murray, reported
wrecked off Taylor's Bank) and the Manchester Times, 28th December 1894.