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General Pelissier - a general history

Official No. 39102: Code Letters SMVQ.

Owners: 1856 William James & James Reddin, Prince Edward Island; September 1860 John Wait, North Shields; December 1860 John Rhind, North Shields; April 1863 George Pyman & Co, West Hartlepool; by 1865 A.J. Tharman, (Lime St. London) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1861-64 W Gillies; 1864 Thomas Wood; 1865 Bray.

Voyages: 1863 Hartlepool for the Baltic; 8 December 1862 she collided with another vessel & was abandoned off Flamborough Head. Her crew were picked up by the North Shields brig Antilles & landed at Yarmouth. She was salvaged & sold in April 1863; March 1865 from Shields for London.

Bound from West Hartlepool for Dieppe General Pelissier stranded on Mundesley Bank either in March or April 1865 by May 1865 she had broken into fragments. Loss recorded as notation in Lloyds register 1865/66.

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