Maritime record TR 45 NE 158 - Ertha Rickmers

Summary

GERMAN FULL RIGGED MERCHANT SHIP, 1870

Location

Grid reference TR 4644 5793 (point) NLO
Map sheet TR45NE
District DOVER, KENT

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Full Description

`...Messrs Friends, Vinten and Sons, sold by auction at Ramsgate by order of the Receiver of Wreck, at the Custom House, about 20 tons of leaf tobacco, supposed part of the cargo of the above vessel lately lost on the Goodwin Sands. The average price was 1d per pound, but some of the best fetched 2.5d. per pound. All 20 tons was sold.' Crew: 23 Crew Lost: 23 Passengers: 0 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index. KCT.15.10.1870(R); BOT.Wk.Rtn.1870 Table 22 Pt.2 p50; WDM.23.09. 1870(R)


<1> United Kingdom shipwreck index, Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6340.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Bibliographic reference: United Kingdom shipwreck index. Page Nos. N/a.

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Record last edited

Feb 25 1994 12:00AM