William Shepherd
 Official Number
63929

The William Shepherd was a schooner built to Special Survey at Matthew Simpson's shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster in Sept., 1870. Like several of Simpson's other schooners, she entered the fleet of E.Porter and Co. of Fleetwood.

The William Shepherd was sunk by a German submarine 30 miles SW of St.Ann's Head, Bristol Channel, on the 17th April 1917. She was on passage from Glasgow to St.Valery with a coal cargo. The crew was forced to abandon ship in their small boat, the schooner then being sunk by explosives placed aboard by the Germans.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
William Shepherd
1870
 143
94.0
22.8 
11.3 
2 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1877 (names owners as E.Porter, master as R.Gregson, signal code JSBQ).
  2. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vol. 5. Names master as Capt. E.O. Rickard, owner Langmaid, belonging to the port of Fleetwood.
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