J.W. Wearing

Official Number ?????

The J.W.Wearing  was a three-masted schooner built at the Nicholson & Marsh shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster in 1896.

The J.W.Wearing was lost off Rhoscolyn Point, Holy Island, Anglesey on the 7th December 1901. She had been carrying a cargo of whitening from London to Lancaster, under the command of Capt. J.Jones and with four other crew. The schooner had been seen with a heavy list, six miles off Rhoscolyn Point, and the local lifeboat, Ramon Cabrera, was launched to give assistance. The lifeboat first took off two men, then manoeuvred herself under the schooner's stern to allow the three remaining crew to jump aboard. The lifeboat herself only narrowly missed the rocks, and the lifeboat coxwain reported that the schooner was reduced to matchwood in less than ten minutes.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
J.W.Wearing	1896	150				3

Sources :

1. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5 by Richard & Bridget Larn (names owner as J.Helme).