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Bessie Whineray - a general history
Official No. 54534: Code Letters KMGN.
Owners: 1865 Whineray, Ulverston, Lancashire: 1865 Bell & Co, Ulverston, Lancashire: 1867 John Wilson, Ulverston, Lancashire; 1868-76 Edward J Schollick (Aldingham Hall) Lancashire: by 1879-85 John Melmore & Co, Maryport: by 1887-92 Dixon Taylor Sharper (West Hartlepool) Maryport; by 1895-99 George P English (West Hartlepool) Maryport; 1900 Marshall & Co (West Hartlepool) Maryport.
Masters: 1865-67 W Kitchen: 1868-74 P Hodgson: 1880-85 J Stuart: 1885 Payne; 1885-1900 GW Cummings.
Bound from Beckton for Hartlepool with a cargo of iron-ore & a total crew of eight Bessie Whineray foundered in the North Sea about 20 miles off the Spurn on 4 August 1900. Three men were rescued with great difficulty by the steam trawler Ethurian & landed at Boston, Lincolnshire. Five lives lost.
Lives lost 1900:
Cummins, GW, master, West Hartlepool
Survivors 1900:
Bryen, William, mate
Cummins, George, seaman, West Hartlepool (master’s son)
O’Donoghue, Daniel, seaman, Waterford
The figurehead of Bessie Whineray is in the Royal Museum at Greenwich.
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