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Marion - a general history

Construction commenced by Pile, Spence & Company and completed by Denton, Gray & Co, Hartlepool: Yard No. 71: Official No. 56883.

Owners: T Richardson & JD Hill & Co (Coal Exchange) London; 1870 Commercial SS Co, London.

Masters: 1869 James Noble.

30 January 1872 in collision with the Italian barque Perseveranza off Haisborough. March 1872 James Noble was awarded a silver medal & a diploma, while master of the Marion, for the rescue of the only survivor of the wreck of the La Genevieve of Dieppe on 2 December 1869.

 

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