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Otterburn - a general history

Completed January 1870: Official No. 63551.

Owners: 1869 Watts, Milburn & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne

Masters: 1869-70 Stephenson: 1871-72 J Lowcock: 1873 T Smith.

Bound from Newcastle-on-Tyne for Odessa with a cargo of coal on 14 December 1872 the cargo of the Otterburn shifted & she became leaky. With her pumps choked & on her beam ends she was abandoned on 15 December 1872 in the Bay of Biscay 50 miles off Cape Finisterre. The crew left in their boat & were picked up by the Louise Hillemann & landed at Gibraltar. No lives lost.

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