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A three masted topsail schooner built at Porthmadog by David
Williams in 1900. her dimensions were 124GRT, 89.6'LOA, 22.7' Beam, and
10.6' max draft. Three master mariners from Borth y Gest were amongst
the shareholders. She was a Newfoundland Trader and also carried slates
to the Elbe on many occasions.
She was sold to Cardiff owners in 1917 then to Plymouth
Co-operative Society the next year.
This ship ended up
trading from the West Country in the thirties under Capt. W.Slade.
During the war she was requisitioned, as were many similar fine ships,
and used as a barrage balloon barge. This effectively wrecked the poor
schooner and after the war she was left to rot on the foreshore at
Appledore.
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