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Official Number
15380 |
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Official Number
15380 |
The Mary Spencer was a full-rigged ship, launched from the Whitehaven shipyard of Lumley Kennedy & Co. on the 12th August 1847.
The Mary Spencer had been reduced to barque rig, and was owned
and registered in South Shields when she was lost by fire in 1886. She
departed Aquillas, Spain, on the 2nd April, bound for Tayport with a crew
of 11 and a cargo of esparto grass. On the 20th April, with the barque
becalmed, the cargo was seen to be on fire. Despite attempting to fight
the fire for nearly a whole day, the crew were forced to abandon the vessel
on the morning of the 21st, the position being lat. 46.30 N, long.
13 W. The crew rowed to a German barque, the Marie Antoinette, which
was becalmed six miles off, and later were transferred to another vessel,
the Coquette, before being landed at Plymouth.
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