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Liriope - a general history

Liriope 1856-1863

Built at Stockton-on-Tees: Official No. 6337: Code Letters JNKL: one & a break deck; three masts; wood barque felt sheathed in yellow metal; 308g; 106.0 x 25.5 x 16.0; some repairs 1860.

Owners: 1856 Knaggs & Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1860 William Gray, Henry Taylor & Henry Taylor Purvis, Hartlepool; 23 December 1862 Thomas Mason, LiverpooL; 29 December 1862 George Charles Stewart & James Malcolm, Liverpool.

Masters: 1856-59 E Elliott; 1860 Cassap; 1860-63 G Potter; 1863 George Ritchie.

Voyages: 1857-58 Stockton-on-Tees for South America; 14 September 1862 she arrived at New York from Hamburg with 90 passengers. There had been three infant deaths aboard on the voyage which had taken 60 days. One of the crew, G Kulper of Germany, was lost overboard on 20 July 1862; 1863 Cardiff for South America.

On a voyage from Liverpool for Singapore with a crew of 11 Liriope was stranded & wrecked near Slyne Head at Clifden Bay, County Galway, Ireland on 4 December 1863. All 11 lives lost.

Lives lost December 1863: Ritchie, George, master, Arbroath.

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