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Description: | The wreck of Thessaly, remains of British merchant steamship. {1}
She was built in 1877 by the Laird Brothers and was owned by Birkenhead Shipping Co. LTD at the time of the loss. Thessaly was en route from New Orleans to Hamburg with a cargo of cotton, oil-seed cake, and one paasenger. Just off Borkum she caught fire. The crew abandoned ship, but the passenger, a fisherman was lost. It floated to the Humber Estuary where it sank. {2} | Temporal: | 1890 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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