Maritime record TR 01 NE 116 - Milbanke

Summary

ENGLISH VESSEL, 1874

Location

Grid reference TR 0968 1695 (point) NLO
Map sheet TR01NE
County KENT
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Construction: 2 x decks
Built: 1868
Where Built: Sunderland
Propulsion: screw-driven, 2 cylinder compound engine
Engine HP: 150
Boilers: 2
Owner: R M Hudson
Crew Lost: 14

Value of vessel £22,000, value of cargo £5,834. Sank following collision with the SS HANKOW off Dungeness at 1.30am. The wreck lies in a general depth of 32m standing 10m proud of the seabed. She is broken in two almost amidships, her stern intact, listing 25 degrees to port, most of her forward section having collapsed. Her cargo of lead ingots, each weighing 60kg, of which there were several hundred tons, were marked variously `F Rentero', `Orchardson' and `Fm. Consepcion Miguel Zj'. (2)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1865-74 Romney Marsh Summary p3
LR 1874-5 No.994(M) p483
DK p27 (No.23)


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

<2> Larn, Richard and Bridget, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 2 : Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Kent (Mainland), Kent (Downs), Goodwin Sands, Thames (Bibliographic reference). SKE31910.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Bibliographic reference: United Kingdom shipwreck index. Page Nos. N/a.
  • <2> Bibliographic reference: Larn, Richard and Bridget. 1995. Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 2 : Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Kent (Mainland), Kent (Downs), Goodwin Sands, Thames.

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Record last edited

May 23 2024 1:27PM