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Addington

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1883 Addington Hinton Bros. & Co.
1886 Addington T. Nelson & Son
1889 Addington Harland & Co.
1902 Addington Robson Brown & Sons
1918 Addington Arthur Morphy
1923 Botte E.B. Borjesson

Fate

On a voyage from Lysekil, Sweden to Rouen with a cargo of stone & a crew of 18 Botte grounded on a sandbank off Yarmouth on 6 July 1929. Heavy seas swept over the vessel breaking her to pieces. All the crew took to the one undamaged lifeboat & were picked up by the Dutch steamer Guilderland & landed at Hull.

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