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Devock Water | Official Number
84186 |
The Devock Water was an iron barque built by the Whitehaven Ship Building Company and launched on the 25th November 1881 for Jackson & Metcalf of Liverpool. From newspaper reports it appears that her first voyage was started in January 1882, when she cleared from Newport, Wales, bound for Newcastle, NSW, Australia. She sailed from Newcastle on the 31st May 1882, bound for San Francisco, with a coal cargo (1494 tons). She made the passage in 66 days and docked at Harrison Street, San Francisco, on the 10th August.
The Devock Water, Capt.Roberts, sailed from San Francisco for Cape Town, with wheat, flour etc., on the 20th Sept.1882, and was spoken on the 1st October in lat.12N, long. 122W (in the Pacific, west of Mexico). That was the last that was seen of her. She was posted "Missing" in April 1883.
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