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Thurston (1889) - a general history

Official No. 95894: Code Letters LCNS

Owners: 1889 Murrell & Yeoman, West Hartlepool: 1901 JE Murrell & Son, West Hartlepool: 1912 E Lofgren, Gefle-renamed Felicia: 1915 H Hanssen, Skien renamed Bras

Masters: 1890-92 T Douglass: 1893 T Douglass: 1894 J Diggins: 1895-97 HH Wood: 1899-1902 J Dower: 1904-05 GO Fookes: 1905-09 Benjamin Allen.

Voyages: July 1895 arrived at Bristol from Nicolaief: In October 1899 the steamer Laristan of Swansea sank in the English Channel a mile east of the Goodwin lightship after a collision with the Cardiff steamer Crimea. The Thurston picked up Moore, the master, & 17 of the crew of the Laristan& landed them at Dover.

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