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Shipwreck Saturday- Lady Isabella
Shipwreck Saturday- Lady Isabella
The Lady Isabella was a large iron barque built in Dumbarton by Archibald McMillan & Sons (Yard No 240) and launched on 14th August 1882. Her tonnage was 1396 net tons and she measured 255.7′ x 38.3′ x 20.6′. Ordered by the North British Shipping Co Ltd., St Vincent Street, Glasgow she was first registered on 28th September. In the late 1890s she was purchased by her final owners, G Gordon and Co Ltd., Glasgow.
On 27th August, 1902 she departed from the French settlement of Thio, New Caledonia, with a cargo of nickel ore, for her first visit to her native river since her maiden voyage in 1882. She was under the command of Captain McKinlay and carried a crew of twenty three. Her voyage was to be an eventful one and was to end in tragedy only a few miles from her destination. She struggled against a succession of violent storms and, by the time she finally reached the Clyde some four months later, she had jettisoned one hundred tons of her cargo, which had shifted in one storm, and lost a member of her crew overboard off the west coast off Scotland in another.
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