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The Airey was a ship built at Maryport by John Peat, launched in December 1837. Reputedly she was the first vessel to be launched into the River Ellen broadside, a technique regularly used at Maryport in subsequent years.
From the "Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser", Tuesday, 14th March 1848, page 3 :
" The Airey, Walker, from Callao for Liverpool, was fallen in with on the 4th instant, in lat.48 deg., long.12 deg., in a sinking state, with only the lower main and mizenmasts standing - crew taken off the wreck and landed at Liverpool 9th inst. "
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