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The Ellan Vannin

Mersey Bar, Liverpool Bay

The Isle of Man's oldest ferry, lost with everyone aboard.

The Ellan Vannin was the oldest ship of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Sailing from Ramsey to Liverpool, she was caught in a hurricane near the Mersey Bar and sank.

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When
3 December 1909
Where
53.5300, -3.3300
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

A memorial is in the Manx Museum, Douglas.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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