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The barque Lealta belonged to the brothers Ljudevit and Spiridion Klešković, originally from Boka who emigrated to Trieste and who had a well-established trading house in Rijeka. Her co-owners were the Rijeka shipowner Stjepan Mohović with 2 shares and his wife Jožefina, née Škalamera, from Mošćenice, and the Draga captain and shipowner Ignac Bonetić. The barque Lealtà was co-owned by the Klešković brothers, Bonetić and the Mohović couple continuously for seven years, from her construction to the shipwreck. She was built in Rijeka (Ponsal) in 1877/78. Her launch was among the last launches of ocean-going sailing ships, the last masterpiece of Rijeka shipbuilders (master carpenters). She was a barque of slender lines, 44.96 m long, 9.36 m wide and 6.09 m high. Her tonnage was 662 rt. In all the years she had sailed the world seas, she only changed two masters. The captain Toma Pavletić from Vitoševo spent five years on the ship, while the captain Kazimir Negovetić from Mošćenice ran her only a short time, less than a year. She was built at the time of the penetration of steamships on the Atlantic and European waterways and maritime markets. As a new ship, the barque Lealtà found cargo in areas where the steamer had not yet mastered and where the freight for sailing ships was still lucrative. These were mainly voyages around the Cape of Good Hope and in the Indian Ocean in the transport of English coal to the Middle East, and on return trips with rice cargo to Europe. On her voyages the barque Lealtà could compete with the famous English sailing ships of the time, whose voyages were described by the eminent English maritime historian Lubbock in his most famous works. The last voyage of the ship Lealtà was supposed to be also the first voyage to Rijeka, her port of origin after her departure in 1877, but fate did not allow it. According to the reports of the two rescued shipwrecked people, the clerk Ivan Margitić from Jelovka and sailor Randić, it is known that on 5 December 1883, the ship sailed from Liverpool to Rijeka with a cargo of coal. She was hit by a strong sudden storm near the Strait of Gibraltar, and on 19 December at around 6:30 in the evening, she was thrown over the ridges near Cape Alcira on the Moroccan (Atlantic) coast, where she broke under the influence of strong waves.