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Name: TREASURE TROVE
Type: Sailing Ship
Launched: 06/06/1868
Completed: 07/1868
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 232
Dimensions: 1452grt
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 60081
History:
14/07/1868 G & H Fletcher & Co, Shields; registered at Liverpool
06/09/1868 Abandoned
Comments: 04/09/1868: Cargo of coal caught fire due to spontaneous combustion
06/09/1868: Abandoned when 800 miles west of Monrovia
On a voyage from Shields to Calcutta with a cargo of coal
Vessel assumed to have burned out and sunk


Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 09/06/1868

Liverpool Daily Post, Tuesday, 06/10/1868