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ENVOY

  ENVOY WAS A BARQUE  OF 389 TONS SHE HAD BEEN BUILT BY HENDERSON & CO OF MIRAMICHI AND LAUNCHED IN JULY 1860.SHE WAS OWNED BY TONGUE & CO OF LIVERPOOL

SHE HAD BEEN  CHARTERED BY THE WHITE STAR LINE FOR A VOYAGE TO VANCOUVER ON 10TH APRIL 1864

THERE IS A REPORT OF HER BEING CHARTERED BY THE WHITE STAR LINE IN 1864 AND DOING A VOYAGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO VICTORIA, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN CUTTING IT A BIT FINE TO FIT BOTH VOYAGES IN DURING 1864, UNLESS SHE HAD GONE FROM LIVERPOOL TO VANCOUVER AND THEN ONTO VICTORIA

THERE WAS A VESSEL CALLED ENVOY WHICH WAS LOST ON 8TH NOVEMBER 1864 BUT SHE WAS A SCHOONER OF 92 TONS

ENVOY

A VESSEL CALLED ENVOY DID  A VOYAGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO NEW YORK LEAVING ON 22ND JANUARY 1851

THERE IS A  REFERENCE TO A VESSEL CALLED  ENVOY HAVING SAILED FROM IRELAND TO QUEBEC IN 1851 & IN 1852 ( SHE DID THREE VOYAGES IN TOTAL TO QUEBEC ) POSSIBLE THE SAME VESSEL AS ABOVE

ENVOY 

ENVOY BUILT IN 1872 BUILT BY GILBERT & COOPER OF HULL ENGLAND WAS A VESSEL OF 1,353 TONS WITH A 168 NHP ENGLINE FITTED.

HER LIST OF OWNERS WERE W LIDDELL 1872 - 1881
WILLIAM BAILEY OF HULL 1881 - 1883
BAILEY WATLER &N OTHERS 1883- 1896
BAILEY & LEETHAM 1896 - 1903
WILSON THOS SONS & C0 1911

SHE FOUNDERED IN THE NORTH SEA ( 250 MILES NORTH-EAST OF YMUIDEN ) IN BAD WEATHER WHILST ON A VOYAGE FROM HULL TO STOCKHOLM. ALL OF THE CREW WERE SAVED - FOR REFERENCE ONLY NO WSL CONNECTION