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Forest Queen - a general history

Official No. 47631: Code Letters VPKH.

Owners: 1863 H Seligman, Glasgow; R Merrison; 1866 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1868 William Rawson & James HB Robinson (Bishop Lane) Hull.

Masters: 1863-64 J Bulman; 1865 C Gordon; 1866 C Needham; l867 W Smith; 1868 Fredrickson; 1869-70 R Sherwood; 1871 Peat; 1872-74 J Slingsby; 1880 Oliver; 1881-85 Peat; 1891 J Small; 1892 R Lawson.

Voyages: Hartlepool for Rotterdam; London for France

Bound from Hull for Stockton-on-Tees with a cargo of railway track & purple ore & a crew of 13 & two passengers Forest Queen sank after a collision with the Newcastle-on-Tyne steamer Loughbrow about eight miles SSE of Flamborough Head in 53.59N/00.02W on 24 February 1892. Both passengers & 12 of the crew were lost with only the master surviving. The Mayor of Hull, Edward Robson, started a relief fund for the widows & orphans left by the disaster.

Lives lost February 1892;

Davis, J, able seaman

Day, H, 2nd officer

Drewery, J, able seaman

Fitzgerald, able seaman

Forseman, able seaman

Hill, J, fireman

Keiller, D, chief engineer

Larder, T, donkeyman

Miles, W chief steward

Sutcliffe, R, fireman

Thomas, J, 2nd engineer

Westerdale, William, chief officer

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