Wooden fishing smack, built 1888 Samuel Dewdney and Sons, Brixham.
ON 95317, 46 gt, 66.2 x 18.2 x 9.1 ft, registerd Douglas (Isle of Man)
Ownership transferred 1916 to Rowland Morris, London Street, Fleetwood,
Fish Merchant
Vessel sunk on 16 October 1916 and a total wreck after collision
with steam trawler Queen Alexandra of Hull.
Collision on southern side of Lune Deep, area called NW Boulders.
Position (HO reported, not now charted) 53°55.76N, 3°6.61W.
The Douglas Shipping Register for the smack Sunbeam states: 16/10/1916 Vessel
sunk and a total wreck after collision with steam trawler
Queen Alexandra of Hull. After the wreck, a buoy was placed to mark the site,
in the area known as NW Boulders, on the south side of the Lune Deep. That buoy
was later withdrawn and a survey in 1999 reported no sign of wreckage. The location
is not currently charted.
The Queen
Alexandra was Hull owned, but from 1914, transferred to fish from
Fleetwood, as steam trawler FD364, built Hull 1901, 231 gt, which was broken up in
1954.
The Hydrographic Office has a note with the suggestion that the Sunbeam
that was sunk at the above date was a 133 gt steam trawler (ON 97554), DE13,
owned by McKinnon of Dundee, built 1891 by Hawthorns at Leith. That vessel
continued in service until 1934 and was based at Dundee in 1916. This wrong
identification was also reported in Wrecks of Liverpool
Bay Vol II [now corrected] and in the
list of Morecambe Bay wrecks