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Valetta

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1875 Valetta W. Gray & Co. Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from Penarth for St John’s Newfoundland with a cargo of coal & a crew of 20 she was damaged by ice, abandoned & foundered in the North Atlantic about 50 miles east of Halifax, Newfoundland on 18 April 1894. Her crew were saved by the bark Liberté. Master J. Davies.

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