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Clematis - a general history

Launched & completed March 1884: Official No. 89462: Code Letters JGRQ.

Owners: 1884 Jesse Lilly, James Wilson & Co, West Hartlepool; 1893 J. Lilly & Co, West Hartlepool; 1894 North Eastern Shipping Co Ltd (JH Buck) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1886 J Batty; 1887 Owen; 1891-93 GR Mauer; 1894 T Batty.

Bound from Stockton-on-Tees for Blyth in ballast & a crew of 16 & one passenger Clematis sank after a collision with the London steamer Beamish six miles SE by S of Souter Point on 18 April 1894. No lives lost.

 

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