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Cuba - a general history

Official No. 7950: Code Letters JWCV.

Owners: April 1845 William, Thomas & Errington Bell Ord, George Moon (Bishopwearmouth) & William Jenkins, Swansea; 1850 William, Thomas & Errington Bell Ord, George Moon (Bishopwearmouth) & Catherine Jenkins, Sunderland;  April 1857 James Ayre & James Ayre junior, Martin Wandlep Graydon, Henry Longstaff, William Milburn & Ralph Pattison, Sunderland;  November 1862 Jasper Aitchison, South Shields; April 1865 Benjamin Henderson Huntley & Benjamin Ralph Huntley, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1847-49 Drury; 1850-57 Fred J Organ; 1857-58 Longstaffe; 1859-60 J Foster; 1863 Smith; 1867 Husband; 1867 Brockelsby.

Miscellaneous: 2 October 1863 James Robinson, ordinary seaman, fell whilst tarring the rigging. He died 48 hours later; May 1867 Henderson Huntley aged 15, the son of Benjamin Huntley, Hartlepool shipowner, fell from the rigging into the sea & drowned.

Voyages: 1850 Sunderland for South America.

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