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Betsy - Supposed Loss 1852

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, May 11th, 1880:
SUPPOSED LOSS OF A HARTLEPOOL BRIG AND CREW. All hope is abandoned as to the safety of the brig Betsy, of Hartlepool (Captain Davy), which left that port, coal laden, for the Baltic in March last. A fortnight ago a letter was received from one of the timber ports, from the captain of local vessel, reporting that he passed a vessel believed to have been the Betsy; but as no subsequent intelligence has been gleaned respecting her, she is supposed to have foundered, a letter having been received from the owner in London expressing his belief that such is the case. Should this prove to be true, the event will be rendered additionally sad owing to the fact that Captain Davy was accompanied by no fewer than four of his sons, who with four seamen, formed the crew. 

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