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Levant - a general history

Yard No. 61: Official No. 51378: Code Letters JLSB.

Owners: 1865 Watts, Milburn & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne: December 1865 John Punshon Denton & William Gray, Hartlepool 1866 John Punshon Denton, William Gray & Robert Gray (Blythe) West Hartlepool: 1870 H Taylor, Cameron & Co, Liverpool: 1887 Walter Runciman & Co, South Shields

Masters: 1866-67 Christopher Needham (C.N. 91 Sunderland 1856): 1868-70 Robert Mossman (C.N.11211 Liverpool 1854): 1871-73 Jago: 1875-77 TL Knight: 1880-82 Arkle: 1883 Bevan: 1885 Dalton: 1888 William Youngberg

Levant left Penarth Docks at Cardiff about 4.30pm on 24 March 1888 bound for Orpoto with a cargo of 925 tons of coal, 73 tons of bunker coal & a crew of 15. Thomas Hall, a Bristol Channel pilot, left her 1½ miles NNE of Breaksea after which she was not seen again. 15 lives lost.

Lives lost March 1888:

Bryce, J, fireman, Jarrow

Clement, W, able seaman, Aberavon

Fawcett, George, able seaman, Cardiff

Fleming, T, 2nd engineer, South Shields

Ford, G, steward, Felling

Henderson, J, fireman, Jarrow

Hepplewhite, J, chief officer, South Shields

Jacobs, John, able seaman, Cardiff

Kellups, P, fireman

Kift, John, boatswain, South Shields

O’Hara, J, donkeyman, Jarrow

Rainars, B, able seaman, Cardiff

Robinson, JH, chief engineer, Jarrow

Spendiff, P, 2nd mate, South Shields

Youngberg, William, master, Blyth

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