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Iona - a general history

Official No. 97376: Code Letters LJVG.

Owners: 1889 F Herskind & JJ Woods, West Hartlepool: 1894 Herskind & Co, West Hartlepool: 1911 Seeberg Bros, Riga -renamed General Radetskiy

Masters: 1890-1900 J Cranston: 1903-08 W Coward: 1909 J Merrifield: 1911 TS Ayers.

Bound from West Hartlepool for the Delaware Breakwater in ballast & with a total crew of 24 the Iona suffered an accident to her machinery in the North Atlantic on 18 December 1891. 1 life lost.

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