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Dora - a general history

Official No. 65038: Code Letters JTRW.

Masters: 1881 Martin: 1887 J Winchcoombe: 1888 Sturly: 1888-89 J Winchcoombe: 1890-93 W Carr: 1894 HM Hern.

Bound from Huelva with a cargo of ore Dora was in a collision with the Hull steamer Otto at the entrance to the River Tyne on 20 November 1881 & sank off the Fish Pier, South Shields.  She was refloated, sold & renamed Pandora.

Pandora sailed from Blyth on 6 November 1894 bound for Gibraltar with a cargo of coal & a total crew of 15. She passed Dover on 8 November & was not seen again.

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