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Ada (1871) - a general history

Official No. 65517/

Owners: 1871 G.N. Wilkinson & Co, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1872 Lowther.

On her first voyage Ada sailed from Ibrail via Falmouth for Hull with a cargo of barley & a crew of 20 when she sank 20 minutes after a collision with the Hull steamer Sapphooff the Humber on 12 January 1872.  Ada was lying waiting for a pilot off the Hale Sand when the Sapphoran into her causing her to fill & heel over. Her boats were lowered & most of the crew left in one while Lowther, the master, William Howell, chief officer, Peter Farquarson, second officer & two others left in the second boat.

On 8 February1872 the Exeter schooner William & Charles struck the wreck of the Ada & foundered. No lives were lost.

Ada would eventually have been raised or destroyed as she was in a direct shipping path & posed a danger.

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