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Victoria - a general history

Owners: Thomas Sharer & Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1839 Thomas Sharer & Co, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1837 Bell; 1837-38 Madgewick; 1839-40 Williamson.

On 13 November 1840 carrying a cargo of deals & a crew of nine Victoria was driven ashore on the West Bay at Littlehampton & was wrecked. The crew drifted a line ashore to coastguards who then hauled a small boat out to them three times until all were safe. She was marked as wrecked in Lloyd Register of 1841/42.

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