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Hasland - a general history

Official No. 84529: Code Letters WCFV.

Owners: 1881 Groves, Maclean & Co. West Hartlepool: 1888 Maclean, Doughty & Co. West Hartlepool: 1899 Rowe Shipping Co. (Peter Rowe & Sons) Cardiff.

Masters: 1882-85 W Humble (died February 1885): 1887-90 J Berry 1891-95 P Boyle 1895-96 T Tregurtha 1896-99 WH Townsend 1899-1907 GD Griffiths: 1908-11 T O’Hara.

10 August 1895 ashore between Donges & Paimboeuf.

Bound from Cette for Bona in ballast the British cargo ship Hasland because of a leak in her tank foundered in the Gulf of Lyons on 29 March 1911. The vessel had been insufficiently ballasted & her equipment was in an unsafe condition. Sending a vessel to sea under these conditions was down to the owner. The company had four ships & lost another ship, Everest, the following day. The Cardiff  Wreck Court found that both vessels had been over-insured. Hasland had been purchased in 1898 for £9,600 & at the time of her loss was for sale for £6,500 but the Court thought her value to be nearer £5,000.

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