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Dewdrop - a general history

Official No. 2989: Code Letters WJBL: Code Letters JGSN.

Owners: 1882 J Wood & Co, West Hartlepool: 1897 Rederi A/B Skeldervik (H Metcalfe) Jonstorp, Sweden–renamed Mercia: 1916 Rederi A/B Svenska Lloyd-Gothenburg.

Masters: 1882 Simmonds: 1883-86 Morgan: 1888 G Gill: 1888-89 J Parker: 1892-93 EB Sanderson: 1894-96 AJ Simmonds: 1897-1909 NF Wiberg: 1916-18 ORS Smith.

Voyages: from Libau, Russia for London with a cargo of oats & buckwheat & a total crew of 18 the London steamer Swallow was in collision with Dewdrop two miles below the Nore lightship, Thames estuary on 25 November 1896. Dewdrophad her boat smashed, port bow damaged & the side of her bridge carried away. One life lost.

February 1916 Mercia was stranded.

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