Vessel Loss

Memorial: M681

Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis, commemorating Charles Occleshead d. 1870 in the loss of the ‘City of Boston’

Location

Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Charles Occleshead, lost on steamship City of Boston which sailed from Halifax 28 Jan 1870'

Details

Vessel: SS City of Boston

People

Occleshead, Charles
Age: 29
Date of Death: 28/1/1870
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Engineer
Organisation: Inman Line

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 8, p. 65. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site. The 'City of Boston' Inman Line, foundered on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool. Occleashead was 4th Engineer on 'The City of Limerick' in 1869.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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