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Sirene

Photograph at the Sirene plaque

Anchor This Anchor is from the three-masted sixty-seven ton Norwegian Brigantine 'Sirene’ It ran aground by the North Pier, Blackpool, on Sunday 9th October 1892 and was wrecked. The anchor was presented to Middleton Corporation in January 1893 by Mr. John Hulbert, whose firm dismantled the ship.

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