emily barret
The small two-masted schooner Emily Barratt was ordered by
the Hodbarrow Mining Company in 1910 from the Duddon Shipbuilding
Company, and she was launched on Easter Monday 1913. It is believed
that she was the last merchant schooner to be built in England. She
was employed to carry iron ore for her owners, the Duddon Shipping
Association. She was sold in 1922 to Welsh owners, and during WW2
she was employed as an anchorage for a barrage balloon. Then in 1960
she was converted to a yacht and spent some time on display in St
Katherine's Dock, London. In 1988 she was purchased by the Furness
Maritime Trust, towed to Barrow and lifted out to begin an extensive
refit. The cost proved to be too much for the Trust, and in November
1999 staff from the Merseyside Maritime Museum undertook to
faithfully record the remaining hull before she was finally broken
up on site. Key elements such as her figurehead and a sample of her
timbers and fastenings have been saved by the museum. The artefacts
and Merseyside Maritime Museum drawings will eventually be displayed
at the
Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness.
| Name | Year Built | Gross Tons | Length (feet) | Breadth (feet) | Depth (feet) | Masts | Figurehead | Stern | Lloyd's Classn. |
| Emily Barratt | 1913 | 71.4 | 76.8 | 20.0 | 8.3 | 2 |
Sources :
- Trevor Morgan, "The Cumberland Connection: Hugh Jones, Shipbuilder, Millom" Maritime Wales (1983) pp69-95.
