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Stepney

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1886 Stepney F. Green & Co.
1887 Stepney Sheffield Neave
1890 Stepney H.C. Pelly
1902 Stepney Wm. France, Fenwick & Co. Ltd.
1905 Stepney F.V. Lauder
1907 Pei Tai F.H. Johnson
1908 Ogawa Maru Y. Ogawa
1917 Ogawa Maru Narasaki Heitaro

Fate

On a voyage from Sasebo for Osaka with a cargo of iron pipes Ogawa Maru touched ground on 20 December 1922 at Hirato Strait & sank almost immediately. One life was lost.