Registration Documents of the Sloop Samuel

I have recently received, from the North East Lincolnshire Archives, the registration document of the Samuel of Grimsby. The Samuel rescued the crew of the Elizabeth Jane when she was abandoned in July 1854. The Samuel was built by Samuel and George Bennett in 1849 and was registered at Grimsby on the 17th July 1850. Her registration document shows that she was a sloop.

Thanks to the work of a descendant of the Bennett brothers, I now know that the Samuel was built at the Barnby Basin which was at the end of the Barnsley Canal. Cawthorne and Kexborough are the closest modern settlements to its remains. The site of the Barnby Basin may also be seen on Google Maps.


The Barnby Basin is now filled in, but there are photographs of remaining cottages at Barnby see: http://www.billogs.com/cb/yorkshire.htm . A link from this page provides much information about canals in the area at the time of the Samuel. Google Books has much contemporary information about the Barnby Basin and its surrounding area: