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Fairy Queen - a general history

Launched as Princess Alice Official No. 28287: Code Letters PVSQ.

Built at Dundee in 1860.

Owners: 1860 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co (Ralph Ward Jackson) West Hartlepool; 1864 Pile Spence & Co, Hartlepool; 1865 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co (William S Leng & Co) West Hartlepool; 1866 Scott Bros (Tynemouth) Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1868 Charles Mitchell & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1871 L Merton, Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1873 A Davies & Co, London; 1874 Matthew Langlands & Sons (Liverpool) Glasgow.

Masters: 1860-62 T McCarthy; 1862 Charles Nicholos Mylius (b. 1833 Denmark); 1864-65 J Lawson; 1866 G Agar; 1867-68 T Bennett; 1868 Russell; 1871-72 E Godfray; 1873 Hutton; 1877 Donald Munro (b. 1847 Rosshire).

Voyages: 1864 Hartlepool for Antwerp.

Bound from Stromness for Leith in ballast Fairy Queen went ashore & was wrecked on Carr Rock, Balcombie Briggs in the Firth of Forth on 25 December 1877.

At a subsequent inquiry the mate, Donald McPherson, was found in default for not calling the master when the weather became thick. His certificate was suspended for three months.

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