Annie Cowley

 Official Number
63920

The Annie Cowley was a two-masted wooden schooner built by James Coole at Port St.Mary on the Isle of Man. She was the same size as the Margaret Garton, and was launched on Tuesday 14th November 1876. However, she was probably not fully-rigged, and it was only in February that she put to sea. She headed from Peel to Douglas to pick up her first cargo, and was under the command of Captain Gill. The Annie Cowley was intended for coasting and foreign trade.

At the time of the 1881 Census the Annie Cowley was berthed at Liverpool, with her master, Capt.Charles Gill, of Peel, and three other crew aboard.

The Annie Cowley, schooner, of Peel, Capt.C.Gill, Leith for Crail in ballast, to pick up a cargo of potatoes, was wrecked on the W side of Inchkeith island, Firth of Forth, on the morning of Thursday, 9th January 1890. She had parted her anchor in a gale and drifted ashore. All the crew were saved.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Annie Cowley
1876
71
 76.6
 19.8
8.3
 2
 
 
A1, 12 years, Special Survey

Sources :

  1. Launch reported in the the Isle of Man Times and General Advertiser, Saturday, 24th February 1877, page 5.
  2. The Manx National Heritage Library has all crew lists from 1877 to 1890 for the Annie Cowley.
  3. 1881 Census details from Ships in Port 1881 website.
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4: Annie Cowley, schooner, 71 grt, 76.6 x 19.8 x 8.3, off.no.63920, signal letters QMKG, owned by J.Tear & Co., registered at Peel, master Capt.C.Gill.
  5. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1889-90: Annie Cowley, schooner, 71 grt, owned by W.F.Teare, registered at Peel, master Capt.C.Gill, annotated "Wrecked".
  6. Loss reported in the Isle of Man Times and General Advertiser, Saturday, 11th and 25th January 1890 (both page 5), and in the Glasgow Herald, 10th and 11th January 1890.
  7. Wreck details also included in the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland website, citing from "Off Scotland" by I.G.Whittaker and from "Shipwrecks of the Forth: including wrecks from Berwick on Tweed to Stonehaven, Glasgow" by B.Baird (1993).