Gesina

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Gesina

The Gesina a Galliot (tonnage not specified), of Emden, Germany. in passage from Hamburg, Germany to Memel, Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania), with a mixed cargo of sugar and iron pots (some records also state ovens and Champagne), drove ashore on the south coast of St Ninian's Isle, Bigton, on March 9th 1863. All crewmembers were saved, and a small amount of the cargo salvaged, the remainder of the cargo was sold along with the wreck.