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Drydens - a general history

Official No. 1343; Code Letters HJPM; completed May 1851.

Owners: Thomas Dryden (Seaton Sluice, died November 1854) & John Dryden, North Shields; 1854 John Dryden, North Shields.

Masters: 1851-55 John Thompson Barker; 1855 Patterson; 1858-59 Armstrong; 1859 Thompson; 1862-65 William Robert Elliot (C.N. 605 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1856).

Voyages: Shields for the Mediterranean; 24 February 1852 arrived Falmouth.

Bound from Sulina for North Shields with a cargo of maize & a total crew of 13, on 24 November 1865 during a heavy gale, the Drydens was driven towards the Par sands in St Austell’s Bay, Cornwall & stranded. The Fowey Royal National Lifeboat went to the aid of the crew & succeeded in a rescue. The wreck was sold on 12 December 1865.

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