The Piano in the Storm: Why the Li'l Daisy Never Reached Port
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The Piano in the Storm: Why the Li'l Daisy Never Reached Port
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Fear and fascination meet on a black morning when a piano drifted past a lightvessel while thirty-six people lay dead-waves over twenty-four feet, no distress signals, and a ship that had been trusted for decades. What could break the Li'l Daisy when everyone aboard did everything right, and why did a lone piano become the most visible evidence of a vanished crossing?
In this episode, we tell the fatal December 3, 1909 voyage of the Ellan Vannin, outline the ship's history and reputation, and follow the survivors' and witnesses' accounts that lead to the unanswered question: how did a vessel famed for surviving storms become a wreck with no final transmission and no launched lifeboats?
Date: December 3, 1909
Ship: Ellan Vannin (formerly Mona's Isle)
Location: Mersey approach channel and Lancashire coast
Deaths: 36
Builder: Tod and McGregor, Meadowside, Glasgow
- Waves on the morning of the wreck exceeded 24 feet as a piano floated past the Mersey Bar lightvessel at 6:35 a.m.
- The Ellan Vannin had entered service in June 1860 and was rebuilt in 1883 with twin screws and a boiler rated at 80 psi.
- The ship could carry roughly 300 passengers and made about 12.5 knots after her 1883 rebuild.
- The lifeboat from the Ellan Vannin washed ashore at New Brighton with its cover on and working gear inside, having never been launched.
- The Li'l Daisy had been renamed Ellan Vannin on November 16, 1883, and received an overhaul in December 1891 costing £2,913.
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