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William Shepherd | Official Number
63929
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The William Shepherd was a schooner built to Special Survey
at
Matthew Simpson's shipyard at Glasson Dock, Lancaster. She was launched
on Monday, 26th September 1870, and was christened by the daughter of
her future owner. 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.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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William Shepherd
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1870
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143
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94.0
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22.8
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11.3
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2
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10 years A1, Special Survey
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Sources :
- Launch reported in the Lancaster Gazette, Saturday, 1st October 1870, page 5.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1871-2: William Shepherd, schooner, 133 tons, built September 1870 by Simpson at Glasson
Dock, owned by Porter & Co.,
of Fleetwood, vessel registered at Fleetwood, master Capt.W.Porter.
- Mercantile Navy List 1876: William Shepherd, schooner, 133
tons, built 1870 at Glasson Dock, official number 63929, signal flags
JSBQ, owned by Edmund Porter, of Fleetwood, and registered at Fleetwood.
- Mercantile Navy List 1904: William Shepherd, schooner, 123
tons,
built 1870 at Glasson Dock, official number 63929, signal flags JSBQ,
managing owner Miles Nicholson, of Fleetwood, and vessel registered at
Fleetwood.
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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.