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Speculation - a general history

Unknown place & date of build: previously Preciosa: Official No. 21097: Code Letters NDVK.

Owners: 1859 Richard Merryweather (auctioneer) Thomas Grey (innkeeper) Thomas Jacob White (blacksmith) & Henry Weatherell (master mariner) Hartlepool; June 1859 Richard Merryweather, Thomas Grey, John White & Henry Weatherell, Hartlepool; 1864 Thomas Grey, John White & Henry Weatherell, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1859-68 Henry Wetherell.

Voyages: 9 August 1861 bound from Hartlepool for London off Aldborough she ran into & caused serious damage to the the Cygnet of Yarmouth, which was at anchor.  

Bound from Hartlepool with a cargo of coal Speculation was riding in Aldeburgh Bay. A heavy gale was blowing & she drove at her anchors in shoal water & struck near the main & sank on 26 December 1868. The crew was eventually saved by boats from the Colchester smacks New Unity & Snowdrop.

 

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