Result

Official Number
56704

The Result was a schooner built to Special Survey at Matthew Simpson's shipyard at Glasson Dock. She was launched on Weds., 16th September 1868, fully-rigged and ready for sea. She was the third schooner built by Simpson for the management of Edmund Porter, of Fleetwod, having been preceeded by the Dairy Maid and the James & Mary.

The Result was wrecked off Cape Gris Nez on the evening of Saturday, 24th November 1877, during a gale. The five crew were saved.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Result
1868
 139
93.3 
22.6 
11.6 
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Launch reported in the Lancaster Gazette newspaper, Saturday, 12th September, 1868, page 8.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1874-5: Result, schooner, 139 gross tons, official no.56704, signal letters HGVD, owned by Porter & Co., registered at Fleetwood, master Capt.W.Wilson.
  3. Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury, Monday, 26th November 1877.