Length (feet) : | 106.5 |
Breadth (feet) : | 28.0 |
Depth (feet): | 18 |
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) : | 380 |
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Additional Particulars : | Wood; sheathed in yellow metal; part new keel 1856; repairs to damage 1858 & 1861; repairs 1863. Official No. 1343; Code Letters HJPM |
Official No. 1343; Code Letters HJPM; completed May 1851.
Owners: Thomas Dryden (Seaton Sluice, died November 1854) & John Dryden, North Shields; 1854 John Dryden, North Shields.
Masters: 1851-55 John Thompson Barker; 1855 Patterson; 1858-59 Armstrong; 1859 Thompson; 1862-65 William Robert Elliot (C.N. 605 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1856).
Voyages: Shields for the Mediterranean; 24 February 1852 arrived Falmouth.
Bound from Sulina for North Shields with a cargo of maize & a total crew of 13, on 24 November 1865 during a heavy gale, the Drydens was driven towards the Par sands in St Austell’s Bay, Cornwall & stranded. The Fowey Royal National Lifeboat went to the aid of the crew & succeeded in a rescue. The wreck was sold on 12 December 1865.
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