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Mary & Emily

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1853 Mary & Emily Matthew Horsley & Co.
1866 Mary & Emily Christopher Moorsom
1889 Mary & Emily Dixon Taylor Sharper

Fate

Bound from North Shields for Sheerness with a cargo of coal & a crew of eight, in thick fog, Mary & Emily was run down & sunk by the West Hartlepool steamer Primrose in the South-West Reach near the mouth of the Thames whilst in tow on 22 February 1891.

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