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Astraea - a general history

Official No. 92907: Code Letters KGBC.

Owners: 1886 M Rickinson & Son, West Hartlepool: 1888 Rickinson & Sons, West Hartlepool

Masters: 1886 Brackenbury: 1887-95 David Nicholas: 1896 McFee: 1896-98 GH Sergent.

Crew June 1888:

Dickinson, WG, 2nd engineer

Sargent, John Henry, 3rd engineer

Sharpe, Thomas Henry, chief engineer

Voyages: On 23 June 1888 Astraea sailed with a cargo of 2710 tons of iron & a crew of 22 all told. On 21 July she was in the Arabian Sea when severe damage occurred to her boilers & she was sailed to Bombay where a temporary furnace was fitted to get her back to her home port. The chief engineer was found to be responsible for the damage & his certificate was suspended for three months.

Astraea was bound from Newport for Genoa & sank after a collision with the steamer Oasis near Cape San Sebastian on 8 October 1898. No lives lost.

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