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Myosotis - a general history

Completed July 1883; Official No. 86960: Code Letters HVMK.

Owners: 1883 J. Lilly, J. Wilson & Co, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1885 Edward Vie; 1885 J Parker or J Payne.

Bound from Bilbao for Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore & a crew of 16 Myosotis, under the direction of a pilot, was wrecked at Bilbao entrance & beached on 8 January 1886. She was got off but broke up when she was being taken into harbour.

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