ASTERION

ASTERION WAS AN IRON BARQUE BUILT IN 1869. SHE WAS 528 / 540 TONS.SHE HAD BEEN BUILT BY LLIFF MOUNSEY & CO AT SUNDERLAND FOR R PENNEY AND HAD BEEN REGISTERED IN SHOREHAM.THE SHIPS MASTER WAS CAPTAIN D COPELAND

SHE WAS CHARTERED BY SHAW SAVILL IN THE 1880'S AND THEN  BOUGHT BY THEM  FROM R.PENNY IN 1883/84 AND THEN  SOLD TO SWEDEN IN 1898 ( 1896? ) WHO OPERATED HER WITHOUT A NAME CHANGE