Ship No. 82548 Name.Lena Letters & No. H1353 Owner. W Robins Skipper. Robert Morgan Ship No. 77501 Name. Sirius Letters & No. H1309 Owner. Richard Roach Skipper. James Booth 2nd Hand. Jesse Minns 3rd Hand. J Wheeldon

Apprentices on Board.

R Ganwell - 3rd Hand apprenticeship expired 20/9/84 at home for a week then reengaged as 3rd Hand on 27th September 1884 at wages of 1 per week - drowned in the North Sea on 27th October 1884

Record of Death or Injury.

Richard Ganwell - see above Albert Brook - 3rd Hand . January 12 2.30 am Spurn bearing SW 250 miles. Washed overboard & drowned.

Memoranda by Skipper.

On January 12th 1885 about 2.30 am Spurn bearing SW about 250 miles on the great Fisher Bank. Whilst in the act of getting on board our fishing gear all hands being on deck at the time we shipped a heavy sea. Washing overboard our third hand Albert Brooks. also our boat, fishing gear life buoys, oars. Boat hook and boom also washing away Bulwarks and broke our foresail & jib. We heard our 3rd hand shout twice astern among the wreckage. Being dark we could not see him and the boat being gone could do nothing to save him as our ship unmanageable.

Record of Casualty.

October 29th 5.30am Spurn bearing WSW 130 miles. Lost our Bowsprit & our sidelighht. Shipped a heavy sea.