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Bessie Whineray
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1865 | Bessie Whineray | Whineray | |
| 1865 | Bessie Whineray | Bell & Co. | |
| 1867 | Bessie Whineray | John Wilson | |
| 1868 | Bessie Whineray | Edward J. Shollick | |
| 1879 | Bessie Whineray | J. Melmore & Co. | |
| 1887 | Bessie Whineray | Dixon Taylor Sharper | |
| 1895 | Bessie Whineray | George P. English | |
| 1900 | Bessie Whineray | Marshall & Co. |
Fate
Bound from Beckton for Hartlepool with a cargo of iron-ore and a total crew of eight Bessie Whineray foundered in the North Sea about 20 miles off the Spurn on 4 August 1900.
Five lives were lost including the Master, G.W. Cummins, of West Hartlepool. Three men were rescued with great difficulty by the steam trawler Ethurian & landed at Boston, Lincolnshire: William Bryen, Mate; George Cummins, Seaman, of West Hartlepool (Master’s son); and Daniel O’Donoghue, Seaman, of Waterford.
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Bessie Whineray - a general history
