Help please - 'Mary Ann' ship sunk in 1868

[LaytonLily]

Thanks for all the replies.

It was really details about the ship the 'Mary Ann', where it was going / coming, and how it sank etc  that I was wanting, and I still haven't got that !

I will see what the FindMyPast entry gives me.  Then give up !

[groom]

I can't find anything about it on the internet, it might be that is was only a small ship so the details haven't been recorded anywhere.

[ShaunJ]

the last number of 1868 is a clear two o's on top of each other !

To me it seems clear that the bottom "o" at least is not a closed loop. 

[groom]

This looks like it   

07 August 1868 - Dover Express - Dover, Kent, England
 

 "Petroleum Fire at Antwerp.—Antwerp, Tuesday.— The English schooner Mary Ann, Captain Marshall, laden with naphtha and petroleum, caught fire here this morning in consequence of an explosion. The ship was entirely destroyed, and the captain and crew perished "

[LaytonLily]

Oh Wow !   Looks as if you did it grass skirted groom !    Roots.chat folk usually get there in the end !     Looks as if I was right - it is 1868 !   Thank you so much.

Of course, you know what I am going to say now, - is there any more information on it ?!

[ShaunJ]

According to this report http://tinyurl.com/pkl389w
 there were 4 deaths in the 1868 Mary Ann explosion ( which was in March, not August) : Capt Marshall, his wife and two crewmen. Two names are listed in the register of wages and effects of deceased  seamen as having perished in this explosion: they are Smith and Bundy. The article also mentions the mate, who was Marshall's son-in-law, as having been very badly injured.

[LaytonLily]

Oh no ! now not Oh wow !  So where is Edwin in that ?    Maybe he was the the son-in-law and subsequently died.   I will have to look into that.

[groom]

Nothing more in the report I find I'm afraid. It looks like one step forward, one back doesn't it?

[ShaunJ]

Back to the 1863 Mary Ann loss: there was a ship of that name that departed Portland, Maine for Liverpool on 12th February 1863 and went missing. The master was Pritchard, and the ship was operated by Freer, Boyd & Co.