Saxon Maid

Official Number 67124

The Saxon Maid was a schooner built to Special Survey at Matthew Simpson's shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster in August 1871. Like several of Simpson's other schooners, she entered the fleet of E.Porter and Co. of Fleetwood.

The Saxon Maid was lost on the 9th June 1901 off the Thames, near the West Shoebury Buoy. Still registered at Fleetwood and owned by Porter's Shipping Company, the schooner was in collision with the steamship Agamemnon, of Liverpool. The schooner was carrying whiting fish from Grays to Lancaster.
 

Name	Year Built	Gross Tons	Length (feet)	Breadth (feet)	Depth (feet)	Masts	Figurehead	Stern	Lloyd's Classn.
Saxon Maid	1871	148	94.4	22.3	11.6	2			11A1

Sources :

1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1877 (names owner as E.Porter & Co., master as R.Bradshaw).
2. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 2 by Richard & Bridget Larn - names master as Capt.J.Tofts, and states that there was a crew of six. Gives wind conditions as W force 1, so probably the ships collided in fog.