Mary Wilkinson

 Official Number
none

The Mary Wilkinson was a smack built by Edward Nelson at Port St.Mary in 1847. She was registered at Derbyhaven on the 2nd October of that year, most of her shareholders being fom the Isle of Man. The register was closed on the 30th May 1854, annotated "vessel lost".

On the 27th May 1854 the Mary Wilkinson, carrying a cargo of scrap iron and under the command of Capt.Kneen, was on passage to Liverpool from Belfast. The smack developed a leak when some 16 miles off Maughold Head and almost immediately began to founder. Capt.Kneen and the crew abandoned the sinking vessel in her small boat and sailed for Ramsey, arriving safely some five hours later.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Class'n
Mary Wilkinson
1847
69
 55.0
21.0
9.7 
1 
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1848-9: Mary Wilkinson, smack, 70 tons, built Isle of Man 1847, registered at Isle of Man, owned by Kneale & Co., master Capt.W.Corkan.
  2. Isle of Man Shipping Register (website).
  3. Wreck details from the CD-ROM "Dictionary of Shipwrecks off the Isle of Man" by Adrian Corkill (2001) ISBN 0-9540115-0-3.
  4. Loss reported in the Liverpool Mercury, Friday, 2nd June 1854.