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Ken - a general history

Ken 1850-1867

Douglas, Isle of Man: Official No. 24323: Code Letters NWHL: one & a half poop deck; three masts; oak & greenheart wood barque sheathed in yellow metal 1855; 221g; 92.0 x 21.5 x 14.0; female bust figurehead; coppered & repairs 1855; part new keelson & some repairs 1860; female bust figurehead-removed September 1863.

Owners: 1850 James Aikin, Liverpool; 1857 DeWitte, London; 1858 Nicholson, Sunderland; 1860 A Brown, A Unthank & M Hodgson, West Hartlepool; 1862 Sherinton Foster (shipbroker, Town Wall) Hartlepool; July 1862 Peter Rutter, Hartlepool; March 1865 Robert Brewis (Albion Terrace) & Robert Walker (ironmonger) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1853 Robert Dickson; 1856-57 T Boulton; 1858-59 Thirkell; 1860-62 W Best; 1863-65 J Mills; 1865 Robson; 1865-66 J Mills; 1867 Lewis.

Voyages: July 1863 Alicante for Hamburg.

Ken left Hartlepool in May 1867 bound for Archangel & was abandoned after being wrecked by an ice floe near Cross Island in the White Sea on 18 July 1867. 64 vessels were abandoned at that time of which 50 were lost.

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