Hygea

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The Hygea, a wooden hulled sail schooner laden with a cargo of coal, 29.33 L x 7.31 B x 3.55 D metres, 168 gross tons, built 1868 K. Kaisen, Stavanger, Norway, owner Akt. Haraldsens Seilsk. Seilsk, registered in Norway, Captain B. Larsen, six crew.

This vessel, in passage from Dysart, Fife, Scotland for Tønsberg, Norway foundered at a position approx eight miles NE of the Out Skerries Lighthouse on November 8th 1914.