Red Rose

Official Number 56965

The Red Rose was reportedly the last vessel built by Matthew Simpson at his Glasson Dock shipyard, before it came under the management of Nicholson & Marsh. She was a three-masted schooner launched in 1879. Like many other vessels built by Simpson (Lancashire Lad, Dairy Maid, Saxon Maid, William Shepherd, James & Mary, Lord Howe, Result), she was owned by Edmund Porter of Fleetwood, and was registered at that port. In 1905 she was sold to an owner at Dumfries.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Red Rose	1879					3

Sources :

1. Netting the Bay - website of Fleetwood Museum -  includes a photo of a watercolur painting of the Red Rose (Fleetwood Museum neg.no. F15/2/95)
2. Merchant Sailing Ships 1850-1875 by D.R.McGregor (pub.1984) gives some details of the Glasson Dock shipyard and building costs. The Red Rose was built at a cost of £3765, but was sold for only £2000.