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Aspatria - a general history

Official No. 86970: Code Letters HWSN.

Owners: 1883 Herskind & Woods, West Hartlepool; 1892 W Runciman & Co (Newcastle-on-Tyne) West Hartlepool; 1897 G Vallee, Rouen, France–renamed Sully; 1904 F Dalmazzoni, Livorno–renamed Tirreno.

Masters: 1883-93 G Veale; 1894 Frederick Fair (b. 1861 North Shields C.N. 013704 Sunderland 1889); 1894 Carl Christian Bruhn (b. 1854 Denmark C.N. 03125 Shields 1883); 1895 W Harroway; 1897 W Sandison; 1899 Ailliet.

Bound from Newport News for Hamburg with a cargo of grain & a crew of 27 Aspatria had her decks swept & rudder carried away during a Force 9 WNW gale in the North Atlantic on 31 January 1894. One life lost.

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