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Sec Marine Dept. Board of Trade London
Sir 19 May /56
By my directions Mr. Catchpole the
Inspector of the River - and Mr. Davis Tide Surveyor
who you lately saw in London have been
following certain quantities Train Road
Iron and fittings - and portions of
Iron which have been lately taken out of
the Sea by some Grimsby Wreckers, from
a Vessel that sunk many years ago -
say 16 or 17 years in Patrington Haven -
which is in the Humber, within Spurn
Point, consequently not within my
district, but that of Mr Saxelbye the Receiver
of wreck for the Hull district - They
have followed 25 tons to Leeds and found
it in the possession of the Monkbridge
Iron Company, who had purchased it
from a man named Birdsell - also of
Leeds, and who is a Marine Store dealer
He obtained the Iron from a man
named John Wood Marine Store dealer
at Grimsby who had it from two Sloopmen
one named (Surfleet) - and the other
Wilkinson) The Iron was landed from
the Sloops of which Surfleet and Wilkinson
are the masters, one in the Old Harbour
of |Hull, the other in the Railway Creek -
which is about a quarter of a mile
west of Hull in the Humber - Birdsell was
prseent at the landing of the lot in the Old
Harbour and received it out of the Vessel
from Wood of Grimsby and the master of
the Vessel, and sent it per Rail consigned
to himself at Leeds - this case has been heard
today before the Stipendiary Magistrate, who
convicted Birdsell in the penalty of double
the Value Viz total £74, - A fine of £20 and the Costs

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