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Nellie Wise

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1872 Nellie Wise Wise & Co.
1880 Nellie Wise Joseph Parsons & Co.
1886 Nellie Wise North Atlantic Shipping Co. Ltd.
1887 Nellie Wise Green, Holland & Sons
1896 Nellie Wise W. Cory & Son Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from London for the Tyne in ballast during a storm that was causing havoc up and down the coast, the steamship Nellie Wise went ashore on Blackhall Rocks three miles NW of Hartlepool on 8th January, 1908. Fifteen of the crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. One life was lost, that of the Second Mate, Warnes Newland, of South Shields.

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