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Royal Dane - a general history

Official No. 44349: Code Letters TSQL.

Owners: 1863 Matthew Rickinson (Church Street) George R Ellison & M Gray, West Hartlepool; 1881 sold to Russia.

Masters: 1863-67 GR Ellison; 1867-71 H Wilson; 1872-74 A Bracken; 1874-77 WG Newton; 1877-80 R Watson; 1880 Malony.

Voyages: 1864 Hartlepool for the Mediterranean; 6 August 1874 from Bahia for Queenstown with a cargo of sugar & a crew of nine she lost her sails & suffered serious damage in the North Atlantic on 6 August 1874. One life lost; November 1880 bound from Gefle for Hartlepool with a cargo of timber was in collision with the Vesper of Dundee while she was at anchor. The Royal Dane suffered loss of jibboom & other damage.

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