Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 84 by R Graggs & Son, Stockton on Tyne for W, F. Beaumont, Boston, Lincolnshire, England.
10 August 1889 launched under the name BURTON.
Tonnage 613 gross, dim. 59.43 (bpp.) x 8.65 x 3.59m.
One triple 3-cyl. compound steam engine, manufactured by Westgarth English Co. Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, 99 nhp.
October 1889 completed.
1901 Sold to Harries Bros. & Co., Swansea, not renamed.
07 January 1911 she left Braye Harbour, Alderney with a cargo of granite bound for London, just outside the breakwater of Braye Harbour she stranded on Grois Ledge, got bottom damage and water flooded into the ship, crew abandoned the vessel, and rowed to shore.
The next day was she refloated by the vessel COURIER and beached inside the port of Braye Harbour.
She got a broken back, and was declared a total loss.
Broken up in-situ.
Source: Starke/Schell registers of Merchant ships completed in 1889. Info received from Mr. Bryan Richards.
Alderney 1987 31p sg A35