Ocean Gem

 Official Number
47281
Ocean gem, photo from John Searle The Ocean Gem was a schooner built at Castletown, Isle of Man, in 1864. She was lengthened in 1882, and was owned in her later years on the Solway, and then in Barnstaple. The Ocean Gem was still sailing in 1935.
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Ocean Gem
1864
44
 
 
 
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Sources :

    1. "Schooner Sunset" by Douglas Bennet, Chatham Publishing (2001), ISBN 1 86176 176 7.
    2. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Ocean Gem, 38 tons, off.no.47281, registered at Castletown, owned by John McMeikin, of Castletown.
    3. The photo was taken in 1913 off Dumfries - courtesy of John Searle.