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Lady Furness

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1895 Lady Furness George C. Coram

Fate

Sailed from Kuchinotzu on 9 November 1897 on a voyage for Singapore with a cargo of coal & disappeared. She was probably lost in fierce storms that prevailed in the China Sea just after she sailed. She was posted as missing by Lloyds on 12 January 1898.

Lives lost 1897: Cooper, Hartlepool; Holroyd, Middlesbrough (father); Holroyd, Middlesbrough (son); Tregerthen, Isabella (wife of master); Tregerthen, William Bosustow, master.

 

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