PEARL

Type: Smack
Hull: Wood
Tonnage: 44 tons register

Owner: John Lain

Builder: at Berwick

Year Built: 1832

On Sunday 18th December 1870, a smack was
observed in Ramsey Bay to be labouring heavily.

She was the Pearl, of Ramsey, Jas Lord, master,
which had left Ramsey the day before bound for
Douglas with a cargo of sand. From the shore it
could be seen that her sails had been carried away.
At 4.30 p.m. the Ramsey Lifeboat was launched
and in a few minutes was lost to sight of observers
on the shore. As it was blowing a gale, those on
shore felt some anxiety, until at 11 p.m. the Lifeboat
nobly entered the harbour with the three crew of the
foundered smack.

from Wrecks of IoM by Aidrian Corkill