Ryelands

Official Number 84964

The Ryelands was a three-masted schooner built by Nicholson & Marsh at Glasson Dock in 1887. In Lloyd's Register for 1887-88 her master is named as Capt. M.G. Marrow and her owner as J.Helme.

The Ryelands was a long-lived schooner, operating in the china clay trade between the wars. In about 1931 she was fitted with an engine and had her masts much reduced.  She was owned by Capt. Hugh Shaw between 1942 to 1946, when she was mainly employed in the Bristol Channel.

In her later years the Ryelands was much used in films. In 1949 she was the Hispaniola in  Walt Disney's "Treasure Island", then took the part of the Pequod in "Moby Dick" in 1954. For this she was skippered by Alan Villiers. She had further parts in television films thereafter, and spent her final years as a tourist attraction at Morecambe. In 1972 she caught fire and was totally destroyed.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Ryelands	1887	149	102.2	22.9	10.8	3

Sources :

1. "Coastwise Sail" by John Anderson (1948)
2. Lloyds Register information from Gilbert Provost's website.