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Grantully - a general history

Launched & completed October 1881: Official No. 84532: Code Letters WFBG.

Owners: 1881 Groves, McLean & Co, West Hartlepool; 1889 Maclean, Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool; 1896 CA Banck–renamed Astrea.

Masters: 1881-85 W Stott; 1887-90 J Boyle; 1891-94 J Sowden.

Bound from London for Newcastle Astrea was in a collision with the brigantine Laura below Swin Middle Lightship in the Thames on 17 September 1896. Both vessels sank. No lives lost.

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