Thomas and Nancy

 Official Number
1884

The Thomas and Nancy was a schooner built at Lancaster and launched on the 5th February 1817.

The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, Saturday, 8th Febuary 1817;

" On Wednesday last, a fine, well-built schooner was launched from the yard of J.Brockbank and Nephew, in this town. She is called the Thomas and Nancy,and intended to trade between Preston and Ireland."

The Thomas and Nancy was initially owned and registered at Lancaster, then sold to Drogheda owners in 1833. She was stranded at Portaferry in November 1865.

The Belfast News-Letter, Tuesday, 28th November 1865;

" The schooner Thomas and Nancy of Drogheda, for many years in the coasting trade, has been reported to some of the merchants of Drogheda as having gone ashore on Sunday at Portaferry, and that she cannot be got off: all hands fortunately have been saved."

Other reports in a Dublin newspaper stated first that the Thomas and Nancywas breaking up, then that she had been safely got off. The latter report was probably correct, as the vessel was still listed in the Mercantile Navy List two years later. The same Dublin newspaper early in 1867 reported the final fate of the vessel.

Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, Thursday, 3rd January 1867;

" The Thomas Nancy (sic), of Drogheda, has been sunk off Carrickfergus, after being in collision with the Mary Connick, of Dundalk."

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Thomas and Nancy
1817
104
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Lancaster Shipping Register 1824-34, ref.SS.5/2 at Lancashire Record Office - "registration transferred to Drogheda in 1833".
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Thomas and Nancy, 75 tons, registered at Drogheda, official number 1884, signal letters HLTN.
  3. Stranding reported in the Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin newpaper), 28th and 30th November 1865.
  4. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Thomas and Nancy, 75 tons, registered at Drogheda, official number 1884, signal letters HLTN, owned by Thomas P.Cairnes, of Drogheda.
  5. Loss reported on Irish Shipwrecks website.