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T.S. Webb - a general history

Completed September 1870; Official No. 65031.

Owners: 1870 Wilkinson & Co, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1871 Green.

On a voyage from Middlesbrough to Taganrog with a cargo of 640 tons of iron rails T.S. Webb sank within a few minutes after a collision with the New York steamer Paraguay off Dungeness on 20 May 1871. The master & four of the crew managed to board the Paraguay& two of the crew were rescued from the water. 13 lives lost.

Lives lost May 1871;

Haydey, cook

Dixon, fireman

Garland, Robert Marsh, 3rd engineer, Hartlepool

Giles, fireman

Gray, chief engineer

Macartney, fireman

Morfar, carpenter

Parson, seaman

Payne, J, 2nd mate

Watson, 2nd engineer

Williams, Hector, chief mate

Two seamen

Survivors May 1871;

Bergewell, seaman

Coulson

Foster

Green, master

Green, seaman

Jakes

Mowatt

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