Vesper (SS)
Screw Steamer in Ireland, dating from 1876
The Vesper was a 478-ton (gross tonnage) iron merchant steamer of Hartlepool, built in Dundee by Barclay Curle & Company, with a nominal horse-power of 60. Benjamin R. Huntley of Hartlepool was one of the vessel’s owners. The ship’s master was Jacob Tolsen and under his command the Vesper left Glasgow on 11 January 1876, en route to Dunkirk in France, carrying 600 tonnes of coal and sugar. All was going well until the early hours of the morning of 13 January, when the vessel struck the Kish Bank
- Type:
- Screw Steamer
- Period:
- 1876
- Coordinates:
- 53.27°N, 5.93°W
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