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Addington - a general history

Completed January 1884: Official No. 89513: Code Letters JDFW.

Owners: 1883 Hinton Bros. & Co, London; 1886 T. Nelson & Son, London; 1889 G.B. Harland & Co (Albert Terrace) West Hartlepool; 1902 Robson Brown & Sons, London; 1918 Arthur Morphy, London; 1923 Rederi A/B Botte (E.B. Borjesson) Lidingo, Villastad, Sweden–renamed Botte.

Masters: 1885-87 J Blackburn; 1887-89 Topper; 1890-95 WR Willis; 1895-99 G Harland; 1900 E Witten; 1909 R Burdon.

Voyages: 5 February 1898 9 days out of Baltimore bound for Bergen, Norway with 9,000 bushels of rye Addington arrived at St John’s, Newfoundland with her bow stove in by an ice floe & her forepeak filled with water. The accident had taken place at Cape Race the previous day.

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