James Williamson
 Official Number
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The James Williamson was a three-masted schooner built at the Nicholson & Marsh shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster in 1882.

In December 1913 the James Williamson was carrying a cargo of steel trimmings from Glasgow to Swansea when she was forced by bad weather to anchor off Carrickfergus. On the night of Saturday, 27th December she was struck by the steamer Eveleen, bound for Belfast from Ayr with a coal cargo. Three of the crew of the James Williamson managed to climb aboard the steamer, but the master remained on board and later had to be rescued, injured, from the rigging of the schooner after she had sunk.
 
Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
James Williamson 
1882
93 
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Information from Peter Sandbach (from Lancaster Shipping Register) - loss reported April 1914.
  2. Irish Shipwrecks Online states that a schooner James Williamson was wrecked at Carrickfergus in 1913.
  3. Wreck reported in "The Times" newpaper, Monday, 29th December, 1913, page 4 - states that the vessel belonged to Lancaster.
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