The wreck of the 816 gross ton Kaiser built at West Hartlepool in 1880. She was owned in 1880 by Webster & Barraclough and ten years later by the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company Limited . Whilst on a voyage from Hamburg to West Hartlepool (Master - George Moorsom) carrying fruit, eggs, pianos & ironmongery plus 13 male passengers Kaiser went aground in fog on Blea Wyke, Ravenscar & was wrecked on 25 July 1904. No lives were lost The wreck was sold to a Newcastle-on-Tyne buyer for £116

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