Museum ship at Plymouth, England. The last wooden sailing schooner used for the trade from the West Country. Launched by Ferguson and Baird, Connah Quay on the R. Dee, Flintshire, Wales in April 1900. Dimensions 98 (stem-stern)-120 (over all) x 23 x 15.6 (height keel deck) and displacement of 92.76 (net)-140.51 (gross) tons with 240 ton cargo capacity and a sail area of 6.400 square feet. Crew numbered a master, a mate and 4 sailors. First owned by captain John Coppack and named after his daughters Lizzie and May and active in the triangle Scotland-London-Channel Islands later between Cardiff-Liverpool-Ireland-West County. When she became Irish property renamed Kathleen and May.
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Monday, 18 November 2019
British sailing 3-mast schooner (ex-Lizzie May 1900-1908) Kathleen and May 1908-
Museum ship at Plymouth, England. The last wooden sailing schooner used for the trade from the West Country. Launched by Ferguson and Baird, Connah Quay on the R. Dee, Flintshire, Wales in April 1900. Dimensions 98 (stem-stern)-120 (over all) x 23 x 15.6 (height keel deck) and displacement of 92.76 (net)-140.51 (gross) tons with 240 ton cargo capacity and a sail area of 6.400 square feet. Crew numbered a master, a mate and 4 sailors. First owned by captain John Coppack and named after his daughters Lizzie and May and active in the triangle Scotland-London-Channel Islands later between Cardiff-Liverpool-Ireland-West County. When she became Irish property renamed Kathleen and May.