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Meridian - a general history

Completed June 1898; Official No. 99500: Code Letters QCPD.

Owners: 1898 George Horsley & Son, Hartlepool;  1900 Horsley Line Ltd. (Matthew Henry Horsley mgr) Hartlepool; February 1915 BJ Sutherland & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne-renamed Renfrew.

Masters: 1898-1900 John William Wilson; 1909 W Tinmouth.

Bound from Marseille for Barry in ballast Renfrew was sunk by gunfire from German submarine (U-39 Walter Forstmann) 85 miles SW by S of Wolf Rock on 3 July 1915. No lives lost.

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