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Artemis - a general history

Built at Muddy Creek, Prince Edward Island: Official No. 2354.

Owners: 1851 WW Lord, Prince Edward Island; by 1853-60 Caernarvon; by 1862 Sunderland; by 1864 John Coverdale & Thomas Day, Hartlepool; April 1864 John Coverdale, Thomas Day, John Hyslop Bell & John Lister, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1865 Hubbard.

Voyages: Hartlepool for London.

Artemis left Hartlepool on 23 January 1865 bound for London with a cargo of coal & was lost in the Stanford Channel near Lowestoft on 4 February 1865. The crew were saved by a fishing yawl. The vessel was insured in the Hartlepool & Yorkshire Clubs. The crew of the fishing yawl were rewarded for their efforts with £7.10s.

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