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Syren - a general history

Built at Prince Edward Island. Official No. 39192: Code Letters SNGR:

Owners: 1857 WS Longworth; by 1860 Folkestone; by 1867-68 Thomas Page (Sandgate, Kent) Folkestone; by 1870 Thomas Cobb, Folkestone; 1880-83 Miss Mary Cobb, Folkestone; by 1885 Dixon Taylor Sharper (West Hartlepool) Folkestone.

Masters: 1879-84 Smith; 1885-86 S Rands.

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, January 19th, 1886:
THE WRECK OF THE SYREN. The Syren, of Hartlepool, from London for Goole, in ballast (reported in yesterday's Mail), struck on Cross Sand, off Yarmouth, yesterday morning, and became total wreck. Her crew of six succeeded in reaching the Cockle lightship, and were subsequently landed at Yarmouth by the Caistor lifeboat.
The Syren,a  schooner of 142 tons, was built in 1857, in Prince Edward's Island, and was owned Mr. Dixon T. Sharper, West Hartlepool.

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