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Robert | Official Number
16430 |
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Robert | Official Number
16430 |
The Robert was a smack built at Lancaster in 1815.
From Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser, 14th September 1848;
" DEATH FROM DROWNING.- On Thursday night last, the 7th inst as
Mr.Richard Collinson, Master of the "Sloop Robert" of this port,
was returning on board his vessel lying in the Canal at St.Helens, he accidently
fell into the water and was drowned. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the
body and a verdict of accidental death returned. He has left a Widow and
one child residing in Sunderland Terrace, in this town, to lament his loss. "
In 1852 the Robert was owned by James Fisher of Barrow, John Ashburner, master mariner, of Rampside (16 shares each), and George Ashburner, iron ore agent of Barrow (32 shares).
Lancaster Shipping Register states that the Robert was lost in Morecambe Bay on the 24th July 1862. The Shipwreck Index gives more details, citing BoT Wreck Returns and giving the date as the 18th July. It also states that the vessel was built in 1812. The Robert was lost 8 miles WNW of Fleetwood, with all hands (three crew) and the master's wife, whilst carrying a cargo of coal, in a WSW Force 8 near gale.
The Ulverston newspaper reported that the Robert sank at 11.30 on Saturday, 19th July, in a gale on the N side of the Lune, about two and a half miles west of the Danger Patch buoy, the wreck being observed by Capt.Martin, master of the steamer Helvellyn. It appears from his description that the vessel grounded and then sank. The newspaper reported that all aboard the smack were lost, being Capt.Blundell, his wife and child, and two crew, a man and a boy. Two weeks later the newspaper reported that the body of the master, Capt.Robert Blundell, was found floating in the water at the scene of the vessel's loss (this time refered to as "Dangerous Patch"). The body of his wife, Sarah Blundell, 21 years old, came ashore at Aldingham some days later.
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