Wooden schooner Govan Hill of Ayr, built Dumbarton 1839, 91 grt, owned McIntyre, Irvine. Voyage Dundalk to Liverpool with grain, master McAlister, lost 23 January 1853 on West Hoyle Bank with all hands. Wreck return states 5 lost.
The Rhyl lifeboat was launched to this vessel, but the wreck was under water; she returned and capsized - with 6 of her crew of 9 drowned - more detail of lifeboat disaster
[from Freeman's Journal - Friday 04 February 1853]:
Shipwrecks. - The Govan Hill, of Belfast, M'Alister, master, sailed
from Dundalk for Liverpool, on the 14th ult., with a cargo of grain
from Messrs. Worthy, M'Loughlin and Murphy, and we regret to say she
became a total wreck on the West Hoylake [sic] Bank at the entrance of
the
Mersey; The cargo and all hands were lost. We hear that the cargo is
fully insured; but have not learned whose property the vessel was, nor
whether she was insured - Louth Pilot.