Saxon Maid

Official Number
67124

The Saxon Maid was a schooner built to Special Survey at Matthew Simpson's shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster. She was launched on Wednesday, 6th September 1871 and was christened by Miss Lamb, of Cockerham. The schooner was intended for coasting and foreign trades, and could carry 260 tons of cargo. She was to be managed by Edmund Porter, of Fleetwood. The first master of the Saxon Maid was Capt.Richard Bradshaw, who was lost overboard and drowned on a passage from Newport to Madeira in April 1872.

Several of Simpson's other schooners entered the fleet of E.Porter and Co., of Fleetwood. One of these was the Livingstone, whose first master, Capt.L.Fish, took command after arriving at Glasson Dock from Huelva in the Saxon Maid in May 1877.

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
 137
94.4 
22.3 
11.6 
2 
 
 
 11A1, Special Survey

Sources :

  1. Launch reported in the Lancaster Gazette, Saturday, 9th Sept., 1871, and death of Capt.Bradshaw reported in the same newspaper, 27th April 1872.
  2. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1872-3: Saxon Maid, 137 tons, owned by Porter & Co., registered at Fleetwood, master Capt.R.Bradshaw.
  3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1898-9: Saxon Maid, 148 tons, owned by Porter's Shipping Co.Ltd., registered at Fleetwood, master Capt.W.Jones, signal letters KNDL.
  4. 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 at night or in fog.