Irton

Official Number 69712

The Irton was an iron brigantine built by the Whitehaven Ship Building Company in October 1873, and probably a sister ship to the Bootle, launched in the same month. Both vessels were registered at Whitehaven and owned by G.Nelson & Co.

The Irton was lost on a voyage from Workington to Newport with a cargo of cast iron ingots, under the command of Capt. F.Evans and still owned by Nelson & Co. She was lost on the 14th January 1883 approx. 3 miles SW of the Smalls, Pembrokeshire, wind SW 5. Only one of the nine crew survived.
 

Sources :

1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1877 (names master as Morton).
2. Wreck info from "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" Vo.5 by Richard & Bridget Larn (gives an incorrect Official No.)