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Mary & Emily - a general history

Official No. 23420: Code Letters NRMG.

Owners: 1853 Matthew Horsley, Paul Meud Edger & John Foster (Whitby) Hartlepool; 1866 Christopher Moorsom (Robin Hood’s Bay) Whitby; 1889 Dixon Taylor Sharper (West Hartlepool) Whitby.

Masters: 1853-64 John Foster; 1865 H Powell; 1865-70 John Foster (C.N. 606 London); 1891 S Mossiter.

Voyages: 1853 Hull for the Baltic; 1856 Stockton-on-Tees for the Baltic.

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 Primrosein the South-West Reach near the mouth of the Thames whilst in tow on 22 February 1891.

Crew September-December 1875;

Pearson, Richard, able seaman, Whitby

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