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Braintree - a general history

Official No. 43992; Code Letters TRGQ.

Owners: 1862 T & C Nichols & Co (Leadenhall Street) London: 1867-74 Dumont & Co, Havre, France 1867-renamed Marcel.

Masters: 1862-66 George Ellery: 1866-67 Henry Stephens.

Voyages: February 1863 from Algoa Bay for Plymouth: for London with sugar, wool & cotton loaded at Port Natal, & wool, sheep & goat skins loaded at Algoa Bay she stranded 6 miles SE off the Lizard on 10 February 1865, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on 4 December 1864, touched at Ascension Island on 26 December & crossed the line on 1 January 1865: left East London on 6 August 1867, rounded the Cape on 17 August, touched at St Helena on 31 August & Ascension on 7 September & was sailing back to London in October 1867 with bales of wool.

Not in Lloyds register after 1874/1875 as Marcel.

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