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Snaefell |
Official Number
44724 |
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Snaefell |
Official Number
44724 |
The Snaefell was built by William Westacott at Barnstaple, Devon,
of English oak, metal-fastened and to the high classification of 12
years A1 at Lloyd's. She was launched on Saturday, 27th May 1876, and had been built
for Isle of Man owners Goldsmith, Cowley, Laughlin and others, based at
Ramsey. She was intended for the coasting trade from Ramsey, and had
been built specifically for the command of Capt.Thomas Callow. He kept her command until his retirement from the sea in 1886.
During a gale on the 15th October 1902 the Pwllheli lifeboat Margaret Platt took eight people off the Snaefell. It seems that the abandoned schooner was recovered and registered at a North Wales port, possibly Portmadoc. Here she seems to have moved away from the coasting trade. Basil Greenhill wrote that the Snaefell was noted for her Atlantic passages, and that she was once sailed from St.John's (Newfoundland) to Liverpool with only two men on board. From the Welsh Mariners website it seems that this voyage was made about 1903, and the two crew were Capt.Evan Evans, of Llanbedrog and Franz Moers, of Helmstedt, Germany.
The end of the Snaefell came in October 1906 when she was wrecked on the W coast of Jutland, under the command of Capt.Robert Owen.
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