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Blythwoode - a general history

Completed August 1870: Official No. 63620: Code Letters JSDN.

Owners: 1870 Watts, Milburn & Co, London: 1879 Watts, Ward & Co, London: 1892 H Briggs, South Shields: 1899 Aktiebol Gustafsbergs Fabriks Intressenter (OW Odelberg) Sweden-renamed Gustafsberg; 1911 A/B Sune, Halmstad, Sweden-renamed Gustaf.

Masters: 1876 Miller: 1882 Thomas: 1883-87 Broker: 1887-89 J Tait: 1890-91 W Gibson: 1891H Thompson: 1892 T Twizell: 1895 H Thompson: 1896-98 AA Dowden: 1899-1908 CE Lutteman: 1911-3 JK Johansson.

Blythewood left Nicolaieff with a cargo of wheat on 16 November 1876 bound for Gibraltar for orders. After crossing the bar at Otchakoff she was piloted by a Russian naval officer to avoid torpedoes in the narrow channel until she reached Kilburn. She struck ground in the channel but was refloated after her cargo was lightened.

Voyages: 17 April 1877 passed Gibraltar bound from Colombo for Boadicea: 1 December 1887 arrived at Deal from Oran: January 1889 arrived at Port Said: 29 September 1889 arrived at Cardiff from Decido: 14 June 1897 arrived at Liverpool from Huelva: 11 January 1898 arrived at Liverpool from Cardiff: 23 January 1899 arrived at Gravesend from Brussels.

Bound from Burntisland for Halmstad with a cargo of coal the Gustaf was wrecked at Morups Tange on 5 April 1915.

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