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Zaire - a general history

Official No. 28286: Code Letters WGBF.

Owners: 1860 Mountjoy Pearse (Stockton-on-Tees) West Hartlepool; December 1860 William Oxford, West Hartlepool; 1861 Ralph Ward Jackson & Co, West Hartlepool; 1861 União Mercantil (Wm. S. Lindsay) Lisbon; 1867 Empreza Luzitana (Bailey & Co) Lisbon; 1882 William Bailey, Hull; 1894 E Giacopello, Lerici-renamed Adalgisa; 1896 GB Giacopello, Lerici.

William Oxford was empowered to sell the vessel at Lisbon for any sum he saw fit within six months of date of certificate & she was sold on 8 January 1861 to a foreigner at Lisbon.

The above ship Zaire is recorded as being built in 1860 & 1870. She was returned to British Registry in 1882 & was given a new Official No. 82515. Her British Register closed 1894.

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