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Glenisle - a general history

Completed January 1891; Official No. 98499: Code Letters MBLR.

Owners: 1891 Livingston, Conner & Co, West Hartlepool: 1900 Cia Avilisena de Nav (M Carrefio) Gijon, Spain-renamed Villalegre

Masters: 1891-92 MJW Wright: 1894-97 G Morris: 1893-1900 G Morris: 1904-05 MA Diaz.

Voyages: Bound from Galveston for Manchester with a cargo of raw cotton & a crew of 19 Glenisle had her boats smashed & other damage during a Force 12 westerly gale in the North Atlantic on 9 January 1894. One life lost: February 1904 the Villalegre went ashore & was stranded. It was thought she would become a wreck but was refloated.

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