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Official Number
58186 |
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Official Number
58186 |
The Pearl was a schooner built by Shepherd and Leech at Whitehaven. She was launched on the 2nd July 1867.
The Pearl was still listed in Lloyds Register of Shipping in 1922, registered at Gloucester and in the ownership of W.T Symonds and Co.
A schooner Pearl, belonging to Gloucester, was abandoned at Pwllheli on the 24th December 1925 (Source 2). However, the vessel seems to have survived because Source 3 states that the Pearl foundered near Garretstown, 19th December 1927, with the loss of all on board.
Source 4 provides more detail on the wreck, reporting
that the Pearl, owned in Gloucester, was bound for Kinsale with
a coal cargo when she struck rocks at Garretstown, Ireland, in a SE gale
on the evening of the 19th December, 1927. The crew managed to send distress
signals and took to the rigging, and during the night a rocket line was
fired to the ship by the coastguard. Some of the crew must have still been
aboard because the rope was secured and the people onshore began to haul
the vessel towards safety. The rope parted, and the morning revealed the
schooner aground on a reef a quarter of a mile offshore. The crew had either
been swept from the ship or had been lost trying to reach shore in the
small boat.
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