The schooner Liberator was built in Sandy Ground, Anguilla in 1942 by Elliot Carty. The Shipwrights were Ellis Franklin and Austin Connor.
Designed as a cargo vessel “Liberator” was the largest schooner ever built in Anguilla capable of loading 180 tons of her ballast. Liberator was built in part from the salvaged wreckage of the new schooner “United Courage” of Carriacou in the Grenadines which ran aground in Meads Bay. The soft white sand in Meads Bay is very treacherous and no sailing vessel which ran aground there has ever been re-floated. Even the efforts of a large U.S. Navy tug from St. Thomas were in vain. The vessel was broken up and the remains towed into Sandy Ground.
Liberator’s trade was mainly in the Eastern Caribbean and Trinidad, carrying salt from Anguilla and returning with petroleum products to the Leeward islands. Liberator was wrecked on Los Roques near Bonaire in 199 on her way to Curacao from St. Maarten.
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