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Bawtry - a general history

Completed November 1890: Official No. 98495: Code Letters JWVK.

Owners: November 1890 Sivewright, Bacon & Co, West Hartlepool; 1903 Imperial SS Co (Sivewright, Bacon & Co) West Hartlepool; 1905 Japanese Government–renamed Rokko Maru; 1906 Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, Japan; 1915 M Yamazaki, Hakodate, Japan; 1920 Yamazaki Kisen KK, Hakodate, Japan.

Masters: 1891 E Wattley; 1892-93 David D Galbraith; 1894-95 EJ Simmons; 1898-1900 Henry R Oakley; 1903 CS Jackson; 1911 WJ Thompson.

Bound from Kiao for Chaou Bawtry was captured in Tsushima Strait in 1905 by the Japanese Navy cruiser Tokiwa.

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