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Hymettus

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1883 Hymettus Thomas Kish
1885 Sunshine Unknown

Fate

Bound from the Tyne for Genoa with a cargo of coal Sunshine was sunk in a collision with the steamer Wellfield of West Hartlepool when going to her assistance off the Gulf of Lyons in 41.02N/5.16E on 29 December 1889. No lives were lost. Master F. Muller 1887-89