Margaret Garton

 Official Number
63921

The Margaret Garton was a wooden schooner built by Joseph Qualtrough at Castletown in November 1876. She was 140 tons burthen, a similar size to the Annie Cowley, a schooner launched the same week from the shipyard of James Coole.

There is a photo of the Margaret Garton at Port St. Mary in the book "The Schooner" by David R.McGregor.

The Margaret Garton was berthed at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on Census night in April 1881, with two men aboard, the master, Capt.Robert Owen, and Isaac Owen, both of Anglesey.

On the 8th December 1886 the schooners Margaret Garton and Lyra both of Castletown, were anchored in a full easterly gale in Scrabster Roads, Pentland Firth. The schooners were in danger of being driven ashore, and the crews were taken off by the Thurso lifeboat Charley Lloyd.

The Margaret Garton was purchased for scrap and demolished by Filson Millar at Ballyhalbert in the 1940's.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Margaret Garton
1876
69
75.6 
19.7
8.3
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Launch reported in the Isle of Man Times and General Advertiser, Saturday, 18th November, 1876, page 5.
  2. 1881 Census details from Bob Sanders, Ships in Port 1881 website
  3. Lifeboat rescue in 1886 from Wrecks of the Pentland Firth 1883-1890
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1922-3: owner named as J.Qualtrough.
  5. Information on the breaking of the vessel by email from Lindsay Young, from an  interview with Filson Millar's daughters.