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Roman Empire - a general history

Completed February 1866; Official No. 54638; Code Letters KPVN.

Owners: 1866 George Duncan & Co, London.

Masters: 1866-70 J Mather; 1871-77 JH Kennedy; 1877 Bastard; 1879-87 J Adamson; 1887-90 Edward Daniel Alston (C.N.26521 London 1865).

Miscellaneous: August 1871 she picked up the crew of the abandoned steamer TW Rhodes; 29 June 1872 at Ilford Court Richard Hooper, steward aged 54, was charged with smuggling tea, tobacco & cigars. He was searched as he left the ship when it was moored at Victoria Docks. The charge of smuggling tea was withdrawn but the value of the tobacco & cigars was £1.15s.7d & he was ordered to pay three times that or be imprisoned for one month.

Voyages: June 1877 Dundee for Cardiff; 19 January 1882 arrived at Auckland, New Zealand with 540 passengers; June 1883 put into Table Bay partially dismasted; February 1888 London for Melbourne.

The Roman Empire left Liverpool on 29 July 1890 bound for Mollendo, Peru with a cargo of coal, a crew of 32 & the wife of the master. Last spoken to in August she was not heard of again. She was posted as missing by Lloyds on 12 March 1891.

Lives lost 1890:

Aitken, James, able seaman, Lanark

Alston, Edward Daniel, master, b.1842, Great Bromley, Essex

Alston, Grace Charlotte Francis, b.1853 (wife of master)

Anderson, A, able seaman, Stockholm

Collyer, JR, 2nd officer, London

Dawson, W, able seaman, London

Donavan, J, able seaman, Dublin

Donnelly, Michael, able seaman Queenstown

Jones, William, able seaman, Cornwall

McDonoyl, A, able seaman, Liverpool

Fledberg, FJ, able seaman, Stockholm

McGuinness, W, able seaman, Baltimore

Norris, H, ordinary seaman, Birkenhead

Henricksen, H, able seaman, Norway

Hind, John, able seaman, New Zealand

Hutton, William, sailmaker & able seaman, Fife

Lorimer, Peter, 1st officer, Edinburgh

Mackie, D, able seaman, Dundee

Martin, George, carpenter, Montrose

McLeod, John, donkeyman, Aberdeen

Olman, Henry, boatswain, Greenock

Parker, John, sailmaker, Fife

Reeves, John, cook Jersey

Rourke, Thomas, able seaman, Drogheda

Stark, Charles, able seaman, Stockholm

Stewart, John A, 3rd officer, Edinburgh

Thompson, JW, able seaman, Liverpool

Wheeler, Charles A, steward, Jersey

Apprentices:

Candler, FW

Ferris, Arthur Henry, 15, Nottingham

La Trobe, Cecil H

McNulty, WH

Nash, EJ

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