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Bellcairn - a general history

Official No. 86950: Code Letters HKMW.

Owners: 1883 E. Cory & Co. West Hartlepool: 1887 R. Irvine Junior (Jackson Bros. & Cory) West Hartlepool: 1888 Jackson Bros. & Cory, West Hartlepool

Masters: 1882 W Kerrison: 1885 WB Ling: 1886 Phillips: 1887-90 EJ Martin: 1891 JW Morris: 1892-93 T Robson: 1894 J Hourie.

On 28 December 1887 Peter Caberry, 26 of Arklow, able seaman, died of smallpox at Constantinople.

On a voyage from Sfax to West Hartlepool with a cargo of barley & a total crew of 18 & one passenger Bellcairn collided with the steamer Venus of West Hartlepool in dense fog off the East Goodwin lighthouse on Saturday, 3 October 1894. For about four hours Venus attempted to tow Bellcairn but she was filling with water so was handed over to the tug Falcon which tried to beach her at Hope Point, a mile west of Kingsdown, Dover, but it was low water & a strong wind had sprung up. She struck the ground & sunk in about 7 fathoms of water. Because the wreck was a danger to navigation it was destroyed. No lives lost.

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