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Type Steamship Sunk 27th January 1879
Gross Tonnage 481 tons Length 185 feet
Built 1864
 
The EDITH OWEN, a two masted schooner rigged steamship, was built in 1864 at Millington Quay in Northumberland and was powered by two engines which combined to give eighty horse power.

On the morning of the 27th of January 1879 with her five passengers, sixteen crew and a general cargo, she rounded the Skerries and headed due East on the final leg into Liverpool. In theory the timing was perfect. Leaving the Skerries at low water, she would have the benefit of the flood tide to assist her on the final part of her voyage, arriving in the Mersey shortly before high water. But that was to be her downfall. A quarter of an hour later, in clear weather and with a calm sea, she was stranded on Coal Rock, a treacherous rock that is normally submerged.

 

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