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Spheroid - a general history

Masters: 1891-92 G Norris: 1893 J Shekyls: 1895-98 J Shouman: 1900 JTR Morrell: 1900-02 RG Taylor: 1904 W Campbell: 1906-07 David D Lewis.

Mervinian was engaged in trade between Liverpool, the Bristol Channel & various Mediterranean ports. She left Swansea on 2 October 1907 on a voyage for Marseille with a cargo of coal. Running into a gale in the Bay of Biscay, her cargo shifted bursting open the hatches & laying the vessel over on her beam ends. She sank on 4 October 1907. The boats were launched but one was swamped & the master, chief engineer, a passenger & 3 of the crew were drowned. The remaining boat was leaking badly but it was kept afloat by bailing for 12 hours when the survivors were picked up by the Greek steamer CristoforoVagliano. 6 lives lost.

Lives lost October 1907: Beale, boy, Marseille; Lewis, David D, master, b.1862 Moelfre, resided Cardiff; Nicholson, chief engineer, Cardiff; Owen, Owen, b.1860, Nefyn, Wales; Parry, William, b.1867, Pwllheli, Wales.

Survivors October 1907: Morris, John J.

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