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Shepherdess - a general history

Official No. 5978: Code Letters JLVM.

Owners: September 1841 Luke Thornton & Joseph Todd (Surrey) Sunderland; November 1842 W Langley, London; 1850 George, John & George Laverick & Richard Verrill, Staithes, Whitby; 1856 W Wear, Scarborough; 1861George Simpson, Shields; 1863 John Coverdale, William Williamson & William Laidler, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1848-50 W Langley; 1853-55 George Laverick junior; 1856-60 J Wear; 1861-63 T Manson; 1863-68 George Wilson; 1868 Holdew.

Voyages: 1850 Whitby for Hartlepool; 5 March 1864 in collision with the Leith vessel Oscar in the Thames.

Shepherdess was about to enter the Thames when her trysail sheet got foul of her wheel chains & she would not answer her helm. As a consequence shewent ashore on the Maplin Sands, Herne Bay & was abandoned on 27 December 1868 with six feet of water in her. The crew were picked up by the vessel Hamburg & landed at Gravesend. The vessel was partly insured in the local clubs as well as with Lloyds.

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