Woolton (ship)

Several vessels have been named Woolton for Woolton, or Woolton Hall:

* Woolton (1774 ship), was launched at King's Lynn in 1773 as Narr. By 1775 she was sailing between London and Liverpool as Woolton. A French privateer captured and ransomed her in September 1779. In 1781 she sailed briefly as a privateer and made one notable capture that involved a single ship action. After the war Woolton continued to trade primarily between London and Liverpool until she was wrecked in 1785.
* Woolton (1786 ship) was launched in 1786 at Liverpool. She spent her brief career sailing between Liverpool and London until she was wrecked in 1791 at the outset of a voyage to Virginia.
* Woolton (1804 ship) was a French vessel launched in the East Indies in 1788 under another name and taken in prize in 1803. In 1804 Woolton became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She made one complete slave voyage and was wrecked as she was almost home from her second slave voyage.
* Woolton (1863 ship), a snow, later a schooner, of 284 tons (bm), was built by James Hardie and launched at Southwick, Sunderland in 1863. She was wrecked near Den Helder, Netherlands on 8 March 1907 with loss of all the crew.[1][2][3]
* Woolton (1885 ship), an iron full-rigged ship of 2,152 GRT, was built by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., and launched at Woolston, Southampton in 1885 for Frederick Leyland of Liverpool. On 14 June 1893 she sailed from Newcastle, New South Wales, for Valparaiso, Chile, with a cargo of coal and tallow and disappeared during the voyage.[4][5][6]

## References

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1. ^ "Woolton". Wear Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
2. ^ "SV Woolton (+1907)". WreckSite. Affligem, Belgium: Adelante EBVBA. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
3. ^ "Loss of a Fowey Schooner". Cornish Telegraph. No. 2974\. Penzance. 21 March 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 3 February 2023 - via British Newspaper Archive.
4. ^ "Woolton". Shipping and Shipbuilding: British and Irish Shipyards. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
5. ^ "Missing Vessels". Lloyd's List. No. 17538\. London. 15 November 1893. p. 5. Retrieved 3 February 2023 - via British Newspaper Archive.
6. ^ "Missing Vessels". Daily Telegraph. No. 4492\. Sydney, New South Wales. 17 November 1893. p. 6. Retrieved 3 February 2023 - via Trove.

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