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From: "Asprey, David" <>
Subject: RE: [Mar] Sailing Ship 'LAUDERDALE' 1878
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:57:32 -0000


on February 03, 2001 4:34 PM Susan Martin wrote

<<<<
> I wonder if anyone can help me. I should like to know the circumstances of
>
> the loss of the 'LAUDERDALE' According to family tradition she was hit by
> a
> typhoon in the China Sea circa 1878.
<snip>
> Does anyone have access to the Lloyd's List, and have the time to do a
> "look
> up" for me?
>>>>
Lloyd's List 1877:
24 Jun: sailed Shanghai for Nagasaki
28 Jun: arr Nagasaki
15 Jul: sld for Shanghai
[14 Sep] Shanghai 28 Jul: The EAGLET, which left Nagasaki 13 July, and the
LAUDERDALE, which left the same place 15 July, both for this port, have not
arrived and from the fact of very severe weather having been prevalent from
the 16th to the 18th outside the Saddles, and inward bound steamers having
reported seeing wreckage, great fears are entertained for their safety. HMS
FROLIC has been diverted to proceed from Ningpo in search for these vessels,
provided she is not detained there by unavoidable duties.
[later reported that HMS FROLIC, and HMS LILY from Nagasaki, had found
nothing.]

There were no follow up reports that year or in 1878.

David Asprey

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