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Orilla

Names and owners

Year	Name	Owner
1858	Orilla	John Rowntree

Fate

Ran aground after a collision in the Straits of Gibraltar on December 12th, 1871.

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Orilla - a general history

Completed April 1858; Official No. 21072; Code Letters NDSR.

Owners: John Rowntree (Clive St, North Shields) Mary Dawson (widow) & Joseph Andrews, North Shields; May 1866 John Rowntree, Joseph Andrews, John Coxon Dawson (grocer) & Matthew Dawson (joiner) North Shields.

Masters: 1858-68 J Andrews; 1869-71 Young Gosket (C.N. 2435 South Shields 1850); 1871 William Sharp (North Shields).

Voyages: 1860/61 she sailed from the Danube to Falmouth in 40 days.

Bound from Taganrog for Queenstown with a cargo of rye she became wind-bound along with hundreds of other vessels in the Straits of Gibraltar. While trying to get underway she was run into by the London barque Brazil which caused the Orilla to drag her anchors & run aground off Eastern Beach where she broke up on 13 December 1871. The crew, a cat & a dog were brought ashore by rocket line.

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