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British Empire - a general history

Official No. 58752: Code Letters HTSL.

Owners: 1868 Robert Brewis (Blythville, Darlington) Hartlepool: 1888 Joseph Rees (Cardigan) & Lewis Jones (master mariner, Cardigan) Hartlepool: March 1892 Mary Ann Malcolm (Port Gordon, Banffshire) Hartlepool: William & David Reid (both Port Gordon, Banffshire) & James de Veulle Le Couteur (Hamburg, Germany) Hartlepool

Masters: 1868-89 G Rowe: 1890-91 L Jones: 1892-94 C Malcolm.

Arrived at Swatow, China 20 January 1872: from Hartlepool 6 January 1874 arriving at the Straits on 20 May 1874: She was sold at Liverpool on 18 February 1892 for £1400.

British Empire discharged a cargo of railway iron & grain at Geelong, Noumea & loaded a cargo of nickel ore. As she was bound for Havre she was driven onto a reef by a sudden squall & wrecked at Pouembout on the coast of New Caledonia on 26 August 1894. Her crew were picked up by the steamer Strathray & landed at Sydney.

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