The brigantine Jessie Annandale.

The brigantine Jessie Annandale.

A pierhead paintings of the brigantine Jessie Annandale.

The 127gross registered ton wooden brigantine Jessie Annandale was the last square rigged sailing vessel to trade out of the Port of Colchester.  She had a woman's bust figurehead, which presumably represented the real life Jessie Annandale.  She was completed in August 1857 by Brown & Johnson at Sunderland for B. Balkwill of Salcombe and registered at Dartmouth.  However, in 1866 she was sold to Abraham Harvey & James Husk of Wivenhoe and transferred to the Colchester Register.   In 1893 she was sold to John Danby of West Hartlepool but remained on the Colchester Register.  In 1898 she was sold to R. & W. Paul Ltd of Ipswich but still registered at Colchester.  In 1909 her registry was closed as the vessel had been ‛dismantled’ (masts and rigging removed) for use as a storage hulk.