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Horace - a general history

Official No. 78418: Code Letters WVQM.

Owners: 1878 Groves, William Maclean, Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool; 1888 William Maclean, Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool; 1898 Rederiaktieb Ocean (G Hagman mgr) Wyborg, Russia-renamed Atlantic.

Masters: 1877 J Payne; 1878-83 J Lundwall; 1883 Patersen; 1885-86 J Nurton; 1887-88 White; 1890-91 P Dalziell; 1891-94 J O’Sullivan; 1897 Clarke; 1899 PG Lindroos.

Bound from Bourgas, Turkey for Antwerp with a cargo of wheat & a crew of 21 Horace had her decks swept during a Force 10 Northerly gale in the East Mediterranian on 19 December 1891. The boatswain was washed overboard & drowned.

Bound from Sunderland for Cronstadt with a cargo of coal Atlantic sunk after a collision with the steamer Twizell in the North Sea on 17 July 1902. Crew saved.

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