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May I suggest that you navigate the site via the index on page 001.PRIOR PAGE / NEXT PAGE Copyright? (3 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 42 = 79) Test. Miramar, Plimsoll, images, xplornet, mariners-l.co.uk, Excel DP, MNL, eBay, Delcampe, May 5, 2021. Do you want to make a comment? A site guestbook is here. On this page ... Metcalf, Mills, George & John, Mills, J., Mills, J. & G., Mills, Jas. & R., Austin & Mills, Mills, S. & P., G. Moore, G. S. Moore & Company, J. Morison, J. Morrice, Murray Brothers, Murray G. & Nesbitt T., Naisby/Naizby, Thomas Nicholson, W. Nicholson, Noble, North Eastern Marine Engineering, North East Shipbuilders, North of England Shipbuilding, Oliver F., Osbourne, Graham, Reay & Naisby (or Naizby), page bottom (unusual vessel names). To search for specific text on this page, just press 'CTRL + F' & then enter your search term. A general site search facility is here. Corrections in any of the material which follows, however tiny, would be most welcome. And additions, of course! METCALF (maybe J. METCALF or T. METCALF) or METCALFE (maybe THOMAS METCALFE) Just a name at this moment. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. I add the name to the site as a result of learning that a vessel named Naworth Castle, a barque of 349 tons, was built by 'Metcalf' in 1868. The vessel is now listed below. Ella, a barque built in 1869 by Metcalf (believed to be Thomas Metcalf), is stated in the Mercantile Navy Lists of 1880 & 1890 to have been built at Ayre's Quay. Names of vessels constructed by 'Metcalf'. As I find them. In a table in build date sequence. Your input would be welcomed. To add to the record. 1   Arkansas 381 tons 54864 1866 A barque. Arkansas, which was launched in Jun. 1866 & first registered, at Sunderland, on Jul. 04, 1866, is Lloyd's Register listed only in 1866/67, in the supplement. Owned by G. (George) Watson of Sunderland for service from Sunderland to the Mediterranean. With 'W. Hoffmn' her captain - see below for the correct name. 121.4 ft. long, a few crew lists are available via this page. The vessel had a very short life. Details below but first a little background. The captain of Arkansas was William C. H. Hoffman, a native of Prussia. In Apl. 1867, on or about Apl. 14th, William Hoffmann was married at Cardiff, Wales, to a lady newly arrived from Prussia - her name is unknown to the webmaster. The couple intended to set up home at Sunderland but since his new wife would have been, for an extended time, amongst strangers there (& likely without the language), 'Hoffmann' requested permission to have his wife join him on the vessel's upcoming voyage, which commenced on Apl. 19, 1867 from Cardiff to Alexandria, Egypt. George Watson, the vessel's owner, agreed to such request, it would seem with some reluctance. Fast forward. On Jul. 02, 1867, Arkansas left Alexandria for Falmouth, Cornwall, for orders, with a cargo of beans. On Jul. 29, 1867, as per the second line 24 here of a U.K. Government wreck listing, the 381 ton barque, with a crew of 12 and one passenger was lost in the Bay of Tunis, off the coast of Tunisia. Such page tells us that 3 lives were lost - in fact there were four lives lost. In a written report from Tunis on Feb. 06, 1867, 'Hoffmann' advised that early on Jul. 29, 1867 Arkansas was 29 miles off Zembara (now Zembra) island in the outer Bay of Tunis. The vessel was almost becalmed then light breezes. After 8 p.m. that day, a cloud, 'not so bad in appearance' appeared. A squall soon hit the vessel & in less that 1/2 a minute the vessel was knocked flat, with water inundating the hull. The captain's wife was in her bed below at the time - and was surely instantly drowned. Only one ship's boat was available, with a single oar & half full of water. 9 men left the vessel in that boat - but 3 others were in the water, could not be helped & must have drowned. Arkansas sank at 8.35 p.m. on Apl. 29, 1867. The next morning Zembra island was spotted. At 2.00 p.m. that day, now in gale force conditions, they landed 12 miles SW of Cape Bon. So 4 lives were lost - the captain's wife & 3 crew members. Captain Hoffmann wrote a long, very long, letter, referred to above, to the vessel's owner. Some contemporary news reports including parts of that long letter - 1, 2 & 3. Can you tell us more? #2773 2   Duke 387 tons 56498 1867 A barque. Duke, which was first registered at North Shields on May 30, 1867 (scroll to #56498), is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1867/68 thru 1890/91. The webmaster believes that this Thomas Metcalf advertisement, in Mar. 1867, offered the vessel for sale. 122.6 ft. long, signal letters KGPC, later MDPC, many crew lists are available via this page. For most of the stated period Duke was owned by the 'Davison' family of North Shields. Thru 1879/80, LR records W. Davison of North Shields as the vessel's owner & from 1880/81 thru 1889/90, records J. T. Davison, also of North Shields. Only limited service data is LR recorded - initially from Sunderland to the Mediterranean, from Falmouth to the Mediterranean in 1869/70, ex Falmouth in 1870/71, & from Shields to Singapore in the following years thru 1873/74. With many captains throughout such total period - S. Adamson thru 1869/70, A. Graham thru 1871/72, 'White' thru 1876/77, W. D. Spooner thru 1879/80, W. Sharp thru 1882/83 & S. Cripps thereafter thru 1890/91. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') records her ownership a little differently - it records Wm. (William) Davison as the vessel's owner or managing owner from 1868 thru 1889, the vessel being, per MNL, registered at Shields thru 1888 & at North Shields in 1889 (MNLs of 1870 & 1880). The webmaster notes that Turnbull's Shipping Register ('TR') of 1883 records Duke as registered at North Shields with W. Davison then her sole owner. TR of 1891 lists J. T. Davison as owning Duke (in a fleet list) but the vessel is not listed in such volume. 'J. T. Davison' would seem, in 1891, to have changed to 'Davison T. R., Son, & Lindley, C.' of both Newcastle & West Hartlepool. In or about 1889 or 1890 the vessel was sold. LR of 1890/91 records T. Morrill, of Hull, as the vessel's new owner, such data being confirmed by MNL of 1890 which lists Thos. Morrill of Drypool, Hull, as her then managing owner. MNL notes that the vessel's (British) register was closed in 1890. For later info. respecting this vessel we thank Torsten Vetter for his kind guestbook message. Torsten advises that in 1890 Duke was sold to H. Maas, of Wustrow (a small community on the Fischland-Darss peninsular, a traditional spot to recruit crews for the Rostock merchant fleet, located NE of Rostock), Germany. With, apparently, no change of vessel name. Further, that later in 1890, under the command of Captain Albert Permien, Duke left Montechristo (today's 'Monte Christi', located on the N. coast of the island of Hispaniola, Dominican Republic, West Indies), for Falmouth for orders, but when at Puerto Plata was both condemned & sold. The source of such data is a German language book by Captain Heinrich Rahden - 'The ships of the Rostock Merchant Fleet' published in 1937 in Rostock (likely related to this volume). Thank you so much, Torsten, for your important data! A site visitor has requested assistance respecting Joseph Henry Creigh who at age 14 served as an apprentice seaman aboard Duke from Apl. 1876. Joseph apparently deserted ship on Jun. 26, 1877, & my contact is trying to establish where the ship was at that time & therefore in which port Joseph deserted. Do be in touch with the webmaster if you can help in any way. All messages will be forwarded on. Can you tell us more? #2239 & 2776 3 Naworth Castle 349 (later 354) tons 58116 1868 A barque, likely 3 masted. Per 1 (wreck data), 2 (crew list for the 1874 voyage from Melbourne to Sydney). 119.2 ft. long. Signal letters HVCG. The vessel is not listed at Miramar. The webmaster has a few editions of Lloyd's Registers available ex Google books & 'archive.org', thru 1876/77 - see left. The vessel was built for G. (George) Watson, of Sunderland. 'Linklater' was her first captain & proposed voyages from Sunderland to Ceylon & to China are indicated. The 1877/78 edition of Lloyd's Register is not available to the webmaster. Dawn Scotting, who is researching her family history, advises that 'Linklater' was Scottish born Magnus Linklater (1837/?), who in about 1873 settled in Double Island, Swatow, now Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. The vessel traded between Swatow & Sunderland with stops at ports in between. And also, on one occasion in 1872 at least, voyaged to New York with tea ex Hiogo, near Kobe, Japan. Magnus's son, also named Magnus, was born at sea on his father's ship in 1873. We do know that on May 23, 1874, the vessel arrived via Hobart at Hobson's Bay, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with a cargo of sugar ex Mauritius, & with Mrs. Linklater & her child on board. On Jun. 11, 1874, the vessel left Melbourne for Sydney, New South Wales, & on Jul. 09, 1874 left Sydney bound for Nagasaki, Japan. It seemed initially that Magnus Linklater (who died on Apl. 01, 1884, at age 45, at Double Island, Swatow, China, a year after his wife had died there) was likely the vessel's sole captain, but that clearly is not so. On Feb. 13, 1877, the vessel left Swatow for Falmouth under the command of Captain Wepnor, with 11 aboard all told. Just after midnight of Feb. 15/16, 1877, Naworth Castle was wrecked on a reef at or near the Paracels, a group of islands in the South China Sea, 180 miles SE of Hainan Island, China. While I have not read the detailed circumstances, she 'struck heavily on the Paracels, the sea making a clean breech over her stern and sweeping away the Captain and a boy, who were drowned'. The rest of the crew, nine in all, were rescued by a junk the next day, taken to Hainan Island & then on to Hoihow (Haikou), also Hainan Island, where they arrived on Apl. 03, 1877. Olympia took the survivors onwards to Hong Kong. Can you add anything? #1840 GEORGE AND JOHN MILLS S. AUSTIN AND MILLS A shipbuilder from Southwick. The 'S. Austin' was one of the members of the Austin family, but I cannot tell you which particular one it was. See here. 'Where Ships are Born' informs us that 'some very fine ships were launched under the supervision of George and John Mills' and they specifically mention Judith Allan in that regard. Derek Holcroft has kindly advised, (thanks!), that George Mills is buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Southwick. Located 'probably no more that two hundred yards from the site of the gates to Pickersgill's shipyard'. The gravestone inscription, which can be seen here, is quite difficult to read. I believe that it states that he died on May 31, 1869 at the age of 64. Names of vessels constructed by 'George and John Mills'? The first of such vessels to be detail listed is now below. More as I find them. In a table in build date sequence. It would seem that they built about 23 vessels over the period of 1862 thru 1870. But ... a word of caution - there were many Sunderland shipbuilders named 'Mills'. Judith Allan, referred to above, used to be modestly detail listed on this page. But two different lists of vessels built at Sunderland over time, refer to her builder as being 'Austin & Mills'. So the vessel is now listed with other 'Austin & Mills' vessels - here. 1   Lizzie Ann, or Lizzie Anne, or Lizzie Annie 285 tons 44452 1862 A vessel with what would seem to have been, for reasons unknown, a 'difficult' name for the ship registers. The vessel, which I read was 'built' on Feb. 13, 1862, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1861/62 thru 1870/71, initially listed as Lizzie Annie, which became Lizzie Anne in and from 1864/65. Owned for that entire period, per LR, by W. Tullock of Sunderland. With 'Rutherford' always her captain. For most of those years, from 1864/65 thru 1869/70, the vessel, per LR, served the Mediterranean from Swansea, Wales. Otherwise ex Sunderland - to the Mediterranean in 1870/71. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL'), listed the vessel as Lizzie Ann from 1865 thru 1870 & as Lizzie Anne in 1871, with Wm. Tulloch of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, always stated to be her owner. 103.0 ft. long, signal letters TVFK. The webmaster has some doubts about the vessel trading out of Swansea. There are very few references to the vessel at 'Welsh Newspapers Online' & none which refer to Swansea. LR of 1870/71 states that the vessel was 'Wrecked'. On Jan. 23, 1871, per line 1184 here, the 285 ton snow (stated to be Lizzie Anne) was stranded at Corton Sand (a shoal located NE of Corleston, Norfolk, & S. of Great Yarmouth), while en route from Sunderland to Alexandria, Egypt, with a cargo of coal. Crew of 9 - 1 lost. Then owned, per such report, by William Tulloch. These newspaper articles tell us i) that Rutherford was the vessel's then captain, ii) that the crew member who was drowned was Jeremiah Helian, an able seaman, iii) that the remaining crew took to a ship's boat & landed at Lowestoft, not needing the assistance of the lifeboat which had been sent to assist them. Can you help with more data? Or correct the above? #2197 J. MILLS The webmaster has no knowledge of this shipbuilder. Who, it would seem, built 5 ships at Sunderland in 1839 & just one in 1842 - for six in total, it would appear. 1   Standard 289/288 tons 1839 A snow or brig. Standard, which was launched in Jun. 1839, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed in the 1839/40 LR edition only. Then owned by 'Greenwell', of Sunderland, for service from Sunderland to Quebec City, Canada, with R. Johnson noted to have been her captain. On Jun. 23, 1839, the vessel left Sunderland for Quebec City with 'Johnson' in command. LR of 1839/40 also records that the vessel had been 'Lost', clearly on its maiden voyage. Wikipedia tells us (thanks!) that on Aug. 10, 1839, Standard, en route from Sunderland to Quebec City was wrecked near Cape Ray. Further that one crew member had been lost. Now Cape Ray is located at the SW end of the Island of Newfoundland, a little to the NW of Port aux Basques. There was no lighthouse there when the Standard was lost nearby, but one was built there in 1871. The webmaster has not read anything about the circumstances of the vessel's loss. He learns, however, that the master & surviving crew of Standard ended up aboard Cosmopolite, noted to have been a Newcastle registered barque. One Standard crew member had been lost - drowned, I read. Such info was provided by Lord Canterbury, a barque built at Quebec City in 1835, when it later arrived at Bristol. It had spoken with Cosmopolite off the SW point of Anticosti Island (Gulf of St. Lawrence) on Aug. 21, 1839. LRs of the period do not record a barque named Cosmopolite registered at Newcastle, but one is recorded as registered at Plymouth, a 373 ton barque built in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1833. I cannot tell you where the Standard crew members were landed nor how they were later repatriated. A couple of contemporary news reports re Standard's loss - (1 & 2). Can you tell us anything additional? #2704 2   Swan 267/259, later 236 tons 280 1839 A snow or brig. Swan, which was launched in Jun. 1839, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1839/40 thru 1845/46, & from 1850/51 thru 1863/64 & not thereafter. Per LR, Swan was owned, thru 1845/46, by 'Greenwell' of Sunderland, for service from Sunderland to Quebec City, Canada. With, again per LR, J. Young always her captain. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/9 lists the vessel, in Apl. 1848 data, as registered at Sunderland & owned by C. Potts & Co., of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland. From 1850/51 thru 1855/56, per LR, D. Park, also of Sunderland, both owned & captained Swan for service from Sunderland to London (1850/51), Sunderland to Hamburg, Germany (1851/52), & for service as a Sunderland coaster. The vessel is recorded in the North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, in Mar. 1854 data, as owned by Dun. (Duncan) McB. Park, of Sunderland, with Geo. (George) Matthews then her captain. As also records Turnbull's Shipping Register ('TR') of 1855. From 1856/57, N. Coward, of Sunderland, is LR listed as the vessel's owner, thru 1863/64, but the data from 1858/59 is both fragmentary & suspect. Per LR, T. White was the vessel's captain from 1856/57 thru 1863/64. The vessel likely was sold early in that period. But .... TR of 1856 records the vessel's then owners as being N. Cawood (not Coward) & D. Stephinson, both of Sunderland. Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 lists Swan as now registered at Shields & owned by the Barker family, i.e. by Thomas, Thomas B., & Christopher Barker, all of North Shields. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') of 1857 records the vessel as Sunderland registered, while later MNLs, from 1858 thru 1872, all record her as rather registered at Shields. MNLs of 1865 thru 1870 all record Christopher D. Barker, of North Shields, as Swan's then presumably managing owner. While MNLs of 1871 & 1872 list Thos. Bell Barker, of Westoe, near South Shields. 87.0 ft. long, signal letters HCFQ, many crew lists are available via this page. What finally happened to Swan? On Sep. 27, 1872, per line 2595 here, the 236 ton brig was abandoned off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, while en route from Shields to Hamburg with a cargo of coal. Crew of 8 - none lost. The vessel was noted to have then been owned by T. B. Barker. Wikipedia tells us (thanks!) that her crew took to a ship's boat from which they were rescued the next day by Echantress. Swan must have encountered very bad weather, indeed, during her voyage. I read that when the vessel was abandoned, at a point 50 miles ESE of Flamborough Head, she was dismasted. Further that the crew were 20 hours in the ship's boat before being rescued by Enchantress, a smack commanded by 'Cornhill', which later landed them at Grimsby. 'Annison' was then in command of Swan. The ship's boat from which they were rescued was picked up on Sep. 29, 1872 at 55N/2E. These contemporary news reports relate - (1, 2 & 3). Can you add anything additional? #2705 J. & G. MILLS The webmaster has no knowledge of this shipbuilder. Who, it would seem, built ships at Sunderland from 1835 thru 1838 - 14 in total it would appear. 1   Queen Victoria 259/258 tons 1837 A snow or brig. The vessel, which was launched in Jul. 1837, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1838/39 thru 1850/51 & not thereafter. It was, per LR, owned thru 1842/43 by 'Thompson' of Sunderland, for service from Sunderland to London with J. Cogle serving as her captain. From 1842/43 thru 1846/47, Queen Victoria, per LR, was owned by Parker of Sunderland - G. Parker in 1842/43 & H. Parker thereafter - mainly for service from Sunderland to the Mediterranean, with G. Foreman serving as the vessel's captain in parts of both 1842/43 & 1843/44. From later in 1843/44 'Backhouse' or 'Backhous' served, per LR, as the vessel's captain. In 1846/47, the vessel, per LR, became owned by 'Hudson' or Hudson & Co. of Sunderland. G. W. & R. M. Hudson of Sunderland in Apl. 1848 per the North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/49. With 'Harrison' the vessel's captain from 1846/47 thru 1847/48, 'Jobling' for part of 1848/49 & R. Warden from late in 1848/49 thru 1850/51. The notation re the vessel's service in 1846/47 is most difficult to understand. In 1847/48 Queen Victoria is LR noted to have served from Sunderland to St. Petersburg, Russia, & in 1848/49 & 1849/50 served Quebec, Canada, ex Sunderland. LR of 1850/51 has minimal detail which suggest that the vessel had been sold or lost. It clearly was lost. This page, ex here, tells us that on Oct. 28, 1852, en route from Sunderland to London with a cargo of coal & a crew of 8, Queen Victoria struck the bar at Hartlepool during a truly massive storm. And became a total wreck. Wm. McLeod is there noted to have been the vessel's captain at the time. This page (in red) states that she was wrecked immediately off the West Docks at Hartlepool, notes that the crew were all saved, but that a crew member had earlier been lost. Her loss is referred to in a number of places incl. these 'The Lifeboat' pages. Can you tell us anything additional? #2449 2   Eleven 263/275 later 244 tons 7498 1838 A snow, later a brig. The vessel, which was launched on Sep. 6, 1838, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1839/40 thru 1859/60. Her initial owner was London & Newcastle Shipping Co., of London, for service from Sunderland to St. Petersburg, Russia, & London to Alexandria, Egypt. With, per LR, 'Morrison' her captain. In 1842/43, Hunter & Co. of Newcastle became Eleven's owner. Which meant, in Jul. 1848, per The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/9, John Hunter. For service i) from London to Newcastle thru 1843/44, ii) service as a Newcastle coaster in the next 2 years, iii) from Waterford, Ireland, to the Mediterranean, in 1846/47 & 1847/48, iv) ex Liverpool briefly perhaps in 1848/49, & v) from Shields to the Mediterranean from 1848/49 thru 1849/50. With, per LR, 'Burlinson' the vessel's captain from 1842/43 thru 1847/48, & then L. Robson in 1849/50 & 1850/51. On Jan. 18, 1850, the vessel was offered for sale at Newcastle. By 1850/51, per LR, 'Thompson' of Shields had become Eleven's owner - mainly for service ex Shields to Spain & the Mediterranean. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/55 lists the vessel, in 1854, as owned by Jos. Logan Thompson of South Shields with Thos. C. Swan her then captain. Turnbull's Shipping Registers of both 1855 & 1856 confirm such ownership, the 1855 edition also listing J. R. Stephenson as her then captain. Her captains per LR? J. Brown thru 1851/52, J. LeLean from 1852/53 thru 1853/54, 'Stephenson' in 1855/56 & 'Wilkinson' from 1856/57 thru 1858/59. The vessel clearly was sold again. Christies Shipping Register of 1858 records the vesssel as now Sunderland registered with Leonard, Leonard D. & Josh. S. Chatt & Thomas Dixon as the vessel's then owners. While LR of 1859/60 records her then owner as being 'Chatt' of Sunderland. 'Druery', per LR, was the vessel's then captain. On Feb. 13, 1860, per line 615 here, the 245 ton brig sank at Bawdsey Sands, (off Orford Ness, Suffolk) while en route from Sunderland to London with a cargo of coal. The crew were all saved & landed at Harwich, Essex. Eleven was noted to have then been owned by Leonard Chatt. I have read that the vessel first struck on the Shipwash (Sands off Harwich) & then sank off Bawdsey. The captain at the time was T. G. Druery, who, per a Feb. 13, 1860 report from Harwich, filed a deposition re the vessel's loss. A later Feb. 23, 1860 report from Treport (NE of Dieppe, France) advised that a small boat belonging to Eleven, marked in its interior T. Glanville Druery, had been picked up 'last week' at a point 35 miles NNW of Treport. Is there anything you can add? Or correct? The circumstances of the vessel's loss? #2500 MILLS, JAS. & R. - of Southwick. The webmaster has no knowledge of this shipbuilder. Who, it would seem, built 9 ships at Sunderland during the period from 1853 thru 1858. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. 1   Elpis 284 later 263 tons 7415 1854 Elpis? The spirit of hope in Greek mythology. A snow or brig. Elpis, which was launched in May 1854, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1855/56 thru 1869/70. It was per LR owned, thru 1863/64, by Graydon & Co. of Sunderland. With 'Milburn' the vessel's captain thru such period. For service from Sunderland to the Mediterranean (in 1855/56 & 1856/57, & from 1858/59 thru 1861/62), from Swansea to Spain in 1857/58, from Sunderland to the Black Sea in 1862/63. Turnbull's Shipping Register ('TR') of 1855 advises that the vessel's then owners were Martin W. Graydon, Wm. Milburn & Wm. Milburn, jun., all of Sunderland, with Wm. Milburn jun. her then captain. TR of 1856 & Christies Shipping Register of 1858 essentially confirm such ownership data. LR of 1863/64 advises that J. Gibson, of Shields but from 1864/65 of Blyth, was the new owner of Elpis with A. Blackburn serving as the vessel's captain. For service from Sunderland to the Mediterranean in 1863/64, from Blyth to the Mediterranean in 1864/65 & from Bristol to South America thereafter. The Mercantile Navy Lists of 1865 thru 1867 all list John Gibson of Blyth as the then owner of the 263 ton Shields registered vessel. I note that LR records the vessel as a snow thru 1864/65 & thereafter as a schooner, it would seem likely in error. 103.7 ft. long, signal letters JSVG, 1864 crew lists are available via this page. On Dec. 07, 1864, Elpis left Cardiff, 'Gee' in command, for Galatz (i.e. Galați, on the Danube, Eastern Romania, Black Sea) with a cargo of coal. On Nov. 14, 1865 the vessel again left Cardiff, this time for Bahia, Brazil, with a cargo of 450 tons of coal. It would seem that the vessel did not get very far in the above noted journey to Bahia. These two pages (1 & 2) tell us that on Nov. 25, 1865, Elpis became stranded & wrecked at Nash Combe, Glamorganshire. Which is, I understand, near Nash Point Lighthouse located mid-way between Barry & Porthcawl. The vessel had a crew of 11 at the time & 9 of the crew, including the captain, lost their lives in the disaster. I cannot yet confirm the name of the vessel's then captain. This contemporary newspaper article is helpful but tells us nothing about the circumstances of the loss & does not mention the captain's name. Harvey Pound, who was the cook aboard Elpis, was one of those who were drowned. The webmaster thinks it likely that 'Anderson' was the vessel's captain at the time of her loss. But it may rather have been 'Gibson'. On Dec. 12, 1865, it was reported. also from Porthcawl, that 16 bodies had been found - ex two vessels, i.e from Elpis & a second vessel named Argo of Fayal (the Azores, Portugal). A couple more news reports - 1 & 2. Is there anything you can add? Or correct? #2855 2   Bosworth 611 later 546 tons 15828 1855 Bosworth, a ship, was launched on Jan. 18, 1855, per these newspaper cuttings (1 & 2) for Messrs Wood, Spence and Blair. Such cuttings advise that she was intended 'for the transport service'. Which I believe means for the carriage of troops & military supplies. The vessel was registered, at Sunderland, on Feb. 05, 1855. The vessel is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1855/56 thru 1869/70, owned thru 1865/66 by Blair & Co. of Sunderland (T. Blair from 1858/59). With 'Turnbull' her captain thru 1862/63 & then 'Nicholl' from 1862/63 thru 1865/66. I note that LR of 1855/56 lists the vessel as a barque - likely in error. Turnbull's Shipping Register of 1856 lists Bosworth as owned by T. Blair & Woods, Spence & Co., both of Sunderland, while Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 lists Thomas Blair as her then owner. Under 'Blair' ownership, Bosworth's initial service was, per LR, from Sunderland to the East Indies thru 1857/58, ex London in 1858/59 (& in 1860/61), from Bristol to Australia in 1859/60. In 1861/62, again per LR, the ship served Australia ex Bristol & in 1861/62 served Australia ex London. From 1862/63, the vessel served India ex Sunderland. The vessel's voyages 'down under', ex Trove, Australia. On Nov. 09, 1858 Bosworth left Bristol for Melbourne, Australia, arriving with 35 passengers & a varied cargo after a voyage of 109 days. On Apl. 15, 1859 it left for its return voyage to London, arriving at Gravesend on Aug. 01, 1859. On Oct. 09, 1859, the vessel was at the Downs bound for Otago, New Zealand ('NZ'). It arrived back at London on Aug. 11, 1860. On Nov. 18, 1860 Bosworth departed the Downs for Auckland, NZ, arriving on Mar. 06, 1861 with military supplies amongst its cargo - 120 tons of gunpowder & 6 Armstrong guns. On Apl. 19, 1861 the vessel left Auckland for Madras (now Chennai) India. All with T. Turnbull her captain. In 1865/66, per LR, Simey & Co. of Sunderland became Bosworth's owner. With, per LR, A. Nicholls her captain while the vessel was 'Simey' owned. For service from Sunderland to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1865/66, ex Liverpool in 1866/67, & from Liverpool to India thereafter. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') records the vessel from 1858 thru 1870, always registered at Sunderland. MNLs of 1865 thru 1869 record T. C. Simey, of Sunderland as the vessel's owner. The MNL of 1870, however, advises that her then owner was Thomas Scott of Sunderland. The vessel is not listed in MNL of 1871. An ownership puzzle at first glance. But I must now presume that 'Blair' & 'Simey' were related parties - both being shareholders in the vessel. I say that because on Jul. 26, 1869, Bosworth was advertised, in the London & Shields newspapers, to be sold at a public auction held in Sunderland on the evening of Jul. 27, 1869. To be sold by the order of the executors of the late Thomas Blair. A sale announcement. An event in the vessel's life that the webmaster happened to spot. On Jan. 31, 1868, Bosworth, under the command of 'Nicholas', left Bombay (now Mumbai), India for Annesley Bay. Which, also known as the Gulf of Zula, is in Eritrea on the W. coast of the Red Sea. On Jun. 19, 1868, or maybe on Jun. 23, 1868 (have read both dates), again with 'Nicholas' in command, the vessel arrived back at Bombay with damaged hull & spars having encountered heavy weather en route. Per these contemporary news reports - 3 & 4. 138.0 ft. long, signal letters LTWD, some crew lists are available via this page, per LR, the vessel became of 545 tons only in 1866/67. LR of 1869/70 notes that Bosworth had been 'Run Down' & states no owner name. But likely then owned by Thomas Scott. I learn that on Sep. 09, 1869, the vessel, John Waters in command, left Sunderland for Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) with a cargo of coal. It arrived at the Downs on Sep. 18, 1869, was at Deal, Kent, for a while & off Plymouth on Oct. 05, 1869. With a crew of 16 all told. Later, on Nov. 02, 1869, the vessel collided with Antonio, a Bordeaux, France, barque, 'Ollivier' in command, en route from Bordeaux to Valparaiso, Chile. Bosworth, in LR's reference was 'Run Down' though only Lloyd's List so states. The collision is noted to have occurred at 7N/23W, 700 miles or so off the W. coast of Africa & closer to Africa than to South America. Which location is a puzzle since the reports also state that the vessel foundered N. of Pernambuco (NE Brazil). Anyway, Bosworth sank & her crew were, I read, saved by Eleanor Grace (built at Sunderland in 1867, D. Downie in command). It would seem that they likely were landed, by Eleanor Grace, at Bahia or Pernambuco. Since the crew returned to Lisbon, Portugal, on Dec. 11, 1869, I read, as passengers aboard Douro, a Royal Mail steamship under the command of Captain Woolward, which vessel was at Pernambuco in Nov. 1869. I wonder why they were landed at Lisbon? Douro then went on to Southampton, a better landing port for the Bosworth crew one would have thought. Some of the contemporary reports, I note, state that Bosworth was en route to Bahia, Brazil, others en route to Batavia. The available data leaves much to be desired. The webmaster did hope that Captain Waters might have later filed a deposition as to the sinking circumstances. But so far at least, the webmaster has found no such report. Also ... I have not read what happened to Antonio & why it, rather than Eleanor Grace, did not rescue the Bosworth crew. What were the weather conditions? Who had right of way? Such & similar questions are at present unanswered. Some contemporary news reports - 1 & 2. Can you add to or correct the above text? Your input would be welcomed, be it large or small. #2882 MILLS, S. & P. - possibly Sampson & Peter Mills & possibly of Monkwearmouth. The webmaster has no knowledge of this shipbuilder. Who, it would seem, was building ships at Sunderland from 1832 thru 1843. In that period, he or they built no less than 53 vessels. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. 1   Robert & Anne or Robert & Ann 191 later 168 tons 23614 1834 A snow or brig. It is the webmaster's belief that this newspaper cutting refers to the launch of the vessel on Sep. 10, 1834. The vessel is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed, always as Robert & Ann, from 1835/36 thru 1842/43 only, and not thereafter. Owned by R. Robson of Sunderland with R. Hall always her captain, for consistent service from Sunderland to London. It would seem that only LR referred to the vessel as Robert & Ann. It is fortunate, in the absence of LR listings, to have other sources of ownership data. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/49, lists, in Apl. 1848, Robert & Anne (with an extra 'e'), a 191 ton brig built in 1834 then owned by R. Robson of Sunderland. Turnbull's Shipping Register ('TR') of 1855 records Robert & Anne, of 191 tons, as then owned by Francis Robson, Thomas Moon, Jane Robson, Sarah Robson, George Robson, & Anne Robson, all of Sunderland, with W. Reed her then captain. TR of 1856 records Robert & Anne, now of 168 tons only, as registered at Sunderland & owned by F., J., S., G., & A. Robson & T. Moon, all of Sunderland. Which owner names do not need (for us) clarification but are are clarified by Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 to mean Francis, Jane, Sarah, George & Anne Robson & also Thos. Moon. An event in the vessel's lifetime. On Jun. 03, 1854, while en route from Sunderland to London with a cargo of coal & a crew of 7, the vessel stranded at Bridlington, East Yorkshire. The vessel 'Was run on shore in a sinking state', as is described here. After all of her cargo was discharged, she was towed back to Sunderland 'considerably damaged'. And presumably was repaired. What finally happened to the vessel? This page tells us (scroll to #23614) that an advice re the vessel's loss was dated Mar. 09, 1863 (as I read the handwriting). The Mercantile Navy Lists ('MNL') of 1860 thru 1863 report the vessel as being Sunderland registered but MNL of 1864 is not available. No crew lists seem to be available. Is it possible that you can tell us what happened to the vessel & when? Or otherwise add to this vessel history? #2322 2   Wensleydale 246/245 tons 1836 A snow or brig. The vessel, which was launched in Aug. 1836, may well have been Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed in 1838/39. It surely was listed from 1839/40 thru 1843/44 but not thereafter. Always LR listed as Wensley Dale (two words). LR of 1838/39 lists Wensley Dale of 246 tons, registered at Newcastle with E. Starkes her captain - but with no other data whatsoever - no owner name, no routing, no data as to where & when built etc. Was it 'our' vessel? LR of 1839/40 lists Ogden & Co., of Sunderland, as the vessel's then owner with T. Murray her captain, for service from Sunderland to the Baltic. From 1840/41 thru 1843/44, 'N. & S. Shl. Sh. Co.', of North Shields, is LR listed as the vessel's owner, for service from Shields to London with 'Murray' continuing throughout as the vessel's captain. Would that owner perhaps have been Newcastle & South Shields Shipping Co.? - the webmaster does not know. The only other available ownership data for the vessel dates from 1848. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848 lists Wensleydale, as being, in Jul. 1848, registered at Newcastle & owned by W. Elliott of South Shields. As you can see here. The webmaster first listed this vessel having seen, in a U.K. Government report, that Wensleydale was wrecked at Hartlepool on Oct. 28, 1852. At line 2103 here, the vessel there noted to be owned by Arthur Elliott & incorrectly listed as a barque. Look at all the vessels that were casualties at the end of Oct. 1852! A more detailed list of 1852 vessel losses was also U.K. Government published - you can read the page that relates to Wensleydale here ex here. It states that the vessel, en route from Shields to London with a cargo of coal, was driven onto Longscar Rocks through stress of weather & became completely wrecked. 'Brunswick' is there noted to have been the vessel's captain at the time of the loss. Seven of the nine man crew of Wensleydale are noted to have lost their lives. The two survivors were saved, I read - 1 & 2 (in red) - by the brave crew of the Seaton lifeboat, William Hood in command with his 16 man volunteer crew - 4 of whom were Hood's own sons.. The Longscar Rocks are notorious & treacherous rocks that have claimed shipping victims for centuries - located in Hartlepool Bay, part of a reef that extends far out into the North Sea. It seems clear that the U.K. NE coast had been hit by major gales in late Oct. 1852. Many vessels were driven ashore up & down the coast. Indeed Northam, built at Sunderland in 1840, was also driven ashore onto the Longscar Rocks. You will find that this contemporary report well describes the effects of the storm in the area. It references the loss of Wensleydale with seven lives lost. The vessel's loss was also noted in these 'The Lifeboat' pages. Is there anything you can add or correct? #2446 3   Judith Milbanke 214/209, later 200 tons 22460 1837 A snow or brig. There is confusion as to the correct name of this vessel. LLoyd's Register ('LR') consistently records the vessel as Judith Milbanke, which name the webmaster believes is correct. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL'), however, records the name as both Judith Millbank (with two letters 'l') & Judith Millbanke. The names Judith Millbanks & Judith Milbank are also recorded - see below. The vessel, which was launched in Aug. 1837, is LR listed from 1839/40 thru 1854/55, then a silence of 19 years, & again in 1874/75 - always, as noted above, LR recorded as Judith Milbanke. From 1839/40 thru 1846/47, LR records Barry & Co., of Sunderland, as the vessel's owner, with M. Miller her captain thru 1844/45 & J. Barry jr. in 1845/46 & 1846/47. For service from Sunderland to London thru 1844/45 & from Sunderland to Cronstadt (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1845/46. In 1846/47, per LR, the vessel became owned by Ridge & Co. of Rochester, Kent, with G. Ridge noted to have been her captain. For service from Stockton to either Rochester or to London. LRs of 1853/54 & 1854/55 provide minimal detail. Which suggests that the vessel may well have been sold. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5 records the vessel, which it names Judith Millbanks, in 1854 data, as registered at Stockton & owned by William Rayner of Middlesbro', with John Lord her then captain. In 1908, a fine Whitby shipping history book was published, written by Richard Weatherill (a 'Google' book). Such volume tells us that the vessel, which they name Judith Milbank incidentally, was first registered at Whitby in 1855, then owned by Jos. Tindale. And that in 1872 the vessel was owned by Jn. & Will. Bedlington. MNL confirms that the vessel was Whitby registered from 1857 thru 1874, owned from 1865 thru 1872 by Joseph Tindall, & in 1874 by John Bedlington, of Whitby. MNL of 1873 is not available. LR of 1874/75 records J. Bedlington, of Whitby, as the vessel's then owner. 80.0 ft. long, signal letters NLPG, many crew lists are available via this page. What finally happened to Judith Milbanke (which the webmaster believes to have been the vessel's correct name). The Whitby history book referred to above tells us that the vessel was sunk after a collision, off the South West Reach, on Oct. 21, 1874. South West Ridge is in the Thames estuary off Foulness. I learn that the vessel, en route from Whitby to London with a cargo of coal, was in collision with Enterprise, a Norwegian barque, off Harwich, Essex. 'Our' vessel sank. Her crew were rescued by Enterprise, which was under the command of Captain Mansen (maybe Ditmansen) & was en route from Sundswall (Sundsvall, Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden) to Chatham, Kent, with a cargo of timber. W. Bedlington was the captain of Judith Milbanke & later filed a deposition re the matter. Enterprise was, I read, significantly damaged in the collision, with loss of foremast & anchors, & was towed into Harwich by Sussex, a tug. A contemporary news report. Is there anything you can add or correct? #2754 4   Autumnus 323/362 tons 25887 1840 A barque. Autumnus is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1839/40 thru 1861/62 & not thereafter. The vessel was initially owned, if briefly, by S. & P. Mills, its builder, for service from Sunderland to Merimac (maybe Merimac river, Massachusetts, U.S.A.). With F. Nixon, per LR, her captain. The vessel thereafter was always registered at Liverpool, first registered there on Jan. 22, 1841 (scroll to #25887). In 1840/41, White & Co., of Liverpool, became the owners of Autumnus & remained so to the day the vessel was lost in 1861. With a number of captains. W. White from 1840/41 thru 1848/49 at least, G. Bewley in 1851/52 & 1852/53, J. Jackson in 1853/54, L. Harrison from 1854/55 thru 1861/62 & J. Wright in 1861/62. Marwood's North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, in Mar. 1854 data, lists the Liverpool registered vessel as owned by William White of Liverpool, with Lister Harrison her then captain. Wikipedia records (thanks!) that on Oct. 12, 1843, a vessel named either Autumnus or Vertumnus was driven ashore south of Middlesbrough. That her crew were rescued, that the vessel was refloated on Oct. 23, 1843 & towed into Sunderland. Wikipedia also record that on Oct. 18, 1843 a vessel named Autumnus was driven ashore on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Such vessel was refloated & taken into nearby The Swale. I do not know whether either event relates to 'our' Autumnus. I note however that only a very few vessels were named Autumnus. For almost all of its lifetime under 'White' ownership, the vessel, per LR, traded out of Liverpool, to Jamaica (in 1842/43), to Bombay (now Mumbai), India (1843/44 thru 1847/48), maybe to Montevideo, Uruguay (in 1848/49), to Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, (from 1848/49 thru 1850/51), to Australia (in 1851/52 & 1852/53), to India (1854/55 thru 1857/58), to Australia (1859/60& 1860/61). Ex Liverpool in 18858/59 & 1861/62. Also, in 1853/54, LR records an intended voyage to Hobart Town, Tasmania ex London. The webmaster has checked at Trove, Australia, for Autumnus voyages 'down under' & spotted 6 such voyages as follows:- i) The vessel, 'White' in command, left Liverpool on Apl. 6, 1841 for Sydney, New South Wales ('NSW'), Australia, arriving there on Aug. 2, 1841. It later left on Sep. 07, 1841, in ballast, for Guam & India. ii) On Jan 23, 1845, the vessel (William White) arrived at Sydney from Hong Kong via Manila with a cargo of sugar. It left on Apl. 26, 1845 for London with a cargo of 1300 bales of wool, tallow & hides. iii) On Mar. 01, 1847, the vessel ('White') arrived at Sydney ex Hong Kong with a cargo of tea. It left on May 16, 1847 for London, mainly carrying wool, arriving at Gravesend on Oct. 19, 1847. iv) On Jun. 03, 1851, Autumnus, Thomas A. Jackson in command, left Oporto, Portugal, for Sydney with a cargo of Sandeman & Co. port wine. It left on Feb. 06, 1852, for London, with a varied cargo. v) The vessel (Lister Harrison) left London on Aug. 23, 1852 for Hobart Town & arrived there on Dec. 29, 1852. On Feb. 21, 1853 it left for Aracan or Arracan (Burma, Bay of Bengal) in ballast. vi) On May 06, 1859 the vessel left Liverpool for Sydney arriving there on Aug. 19, 1859. 'Byrne' was then in command. It made two side voyages to & from Kaipara, N. Island, New Zealand. 'Wright' became the vessel's master, certainly from Dec. 1859. It finally left Sydney (Wright) on May 01, 1860 for Newcastle, NSW, to take aboard a cargo of coal for Valparaiso, Chile - arriving there on Aug. 04, 1860. Just a single year's crew list seems to be available. What finally happened to Autumnus? On Oct. 05, 1861, per line 1385 here, the 362 ton barque was abandoned off Cape Horn (S. tip of South America), while en route from Swansea, Wales, to Valparaiso, with a cargo of coal. Crew of 13 - none lost. Then stated to be owned by W. White. Can anybody tell us about the circumstances of the vessel's loss? Or otherwise add anything? #2664 G. MOORE Just a name at this moment. A shipbuilder that would seem to have built just two vessels in 1840. Johns is detail listed below. The second vessel is at present of an unknown name. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. 1 Johns 301/329 tons later 299, later 300 tons 33083 1840 The vessel, a snow, later a brig, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') recorded from 1839/40 thru 1869/70 (except for 1851/52) & not thereafter. I have read a notation that it was built on May 01, 1840. During the vessel's lifetime, it would seem to have been registered at Shields, at South Shields & at Whitby. Its initial owner was Elliott & Co. of Sunderland, for initial service from Sunderland to Hamburg, Germany, from 1843/44 for service from London to Quebec, Canada, & from 1848/49 for service from Shields to the Mediterranean. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848 lists the vessel as then owned by Elliot, Morris & Co. of Offerton. Elliot with one 't'. Per LR, R. Fox served as the vessel's captain thru 1847/48, then J. Cairns thru to 1850/51 at least. LR of 1850/51 has limited detail & the vessel is not listed in 1851/52 - surely the vessel was sold at about that time. From 1852/53 thru 1862/63, the vessel was owned by F. Reay of Shields, for service from Shields to Hamburg, to the Mediterranean, to America & to Spain. Marwood's North of England Maritime Directory of 1854 lists Francis Reay, of South Shields, as the vessel's then owner with William Reed her captain. Turnbull's Shipping Register of 1855 lists J. Dawson as then the captain of the vessel owned by Francis Reay of So. Shields. Turnbull's Shipping Register of 1856 lists F. Reay of South Shields as owner of the Shields registered vessel, which owner name Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 clarifies as meaning Francis Reay. Under 'Reay' ownership & per LR, W. Reed, J. Dawson, M. Newton, R. Stephens, J. Robertson, O. Arkley & W. Foreman served as the vessel's captains. In 1858/59 the vessel became of 299 tons. From 1862/63, Fairweather of Shields owned the vessel for service from Shields to Lisbon, Portugal, & to the Mediterranean. With J. Harcus her captain thereafter thru 1869/70. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') of 1867 (page 209) lists Alexander Fairweather, of North Shields, as her then owner. The LR editions of 1867/68 thru 1869/70 list no owner name & the vessel is not later listed at all. The 1870 edition of MNL lists Grenville Robinson of Mickleby, Yorkshire, as the then owner of the 300 ton vessel, now registered at Whitby. 95.0 ft. long, signal letters RCTL. On Dec. 12, 1872, per line 2794 here, the 300 ton brig stranded at North Sand (probably Thames Estuary off Sheerness, Kent), while en route from Soderham (Söderhamn, Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden) to London, with a cargo of timber & iron. Crew of 10 - none lost. Vessel then owned by Grenville Robinson. The circumstances of the vessel's loss are not yet to hand. Can you tell us more? We thank Jaap Bakker for alerting the webmaster re the following - an image, at left, of a mid 19th century gouache painting entitled 'Snow Johns of Sunderland Capt. Joseph Eilley'. By an unknown artist. The painting was sold at an Aug. 17, 2019 auction held at the Svenborg, Denmark, auction house 'Svendborg Auktionerne Aps'. A page which rather names the vessel as John & the captain as Joseph Gilley can be accessed here, in English translation here. With a large, different, image of the work. As this listing is updated, the work, or a similar work, is to sold at an auction to be held on Sep. 30, 2019 at the auction house of Bruun Rasmussen of Copenhagen, Denmark. Here. With 2 stunning images of the work & a value estimate of 2000-3000 kr. I cannot so far find any reference to Eilley or Gilley being the captain of Johns. So I am unable to tell you if the vessel in the image is this Johns, but it seems to be most likely. The vessel is depicted off Elsinore Castle, Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark. #2070 G. S. MOORE & COMPANY Just a name at this moment. A shipbuilder that would seem to have built twelve vessels over the period of 1862 thru 1866. The first two of such vessels are now detail listed below. Hopefully more will be similarly listed soon. Can you tell us anything about this shipbuilder? It would seem that G. S. Moore meant George Storey Moore. 1   Water Lily, later Waterlily 70 tons 44037 1862 A schooner, later, perhaps from 1874, a ketch. The vessel is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1863/64 thru 1874/75 (as Water Lily) & from 1875/76 thru 1881/82 (as Waterlily), & not thereafter. While it is on my mind, the Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') of 1872 is the first to list the vessel as Waterlily. Now normally both LR & MNL would indicate that there had been a name change but that seems not to have been referenced in this case. Always registered at Goole, Yorkshire. The timings of vessel ownership changes are suspect since LR & MNL record the data quite differently. Owned & captained thru 1867/68, per LR, by Horn of Goole, (I had previously indicated Horne) for service as a Sunderland coaster. LRs of 1867/68 thru 1875/76 record Shackleton of Goole as her new owner, for use as a Goole coaster. With 'Guthwaite' her new captain thru 1881/82 per LR. However, the Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') of rather earlier, i.e. 1865, lists J. F. Shackleton of Goole as her then owner - thru 1867. MNLs of 1868 thru 1892 (1870, 1880, 1890) all list William Arnold of Knottingley, Yorkshire, as her then owner. While LR only lists W. Arnold as the vessel's owner from 1876/77. The record is most confusing! I read (search for Water Lily) that in Nov. 1877, the vessel, en route from Goole to Naples, Italy, with a cargo of coal, stranded 'close to the pier' at Ramsgate, Kent. Her cargo was discharged & endeavours were made to get her off. Clearly such efforts must have been successful. The vessel would seem to have been sold in 1892 or 1893. MNLs of 1893 thru 1899 all list Robert Mason of Newcastle as the then managing owner of Waterlily, still registered at Goole. 70.0 ft. long, signal letters TRKQ. Can anybody tell us what finally happened to the vessel? In that regard, it may very well be that this Dec. 1898 Lloyd's telegram relates to her demise - Waterlily 'has again returned to Great Yarmouth with topmasts broken, leaky & otherwise damaged'. #2211 2   Constance 317 or 318 tons 47297 1863 Constance, a composite barque, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1862/63 thru 1868/69 only. It was launched on Mar. 04, 1863, as per this extensive contemporary newspaper cutting, therein stated to have been built for a Hong Kong firm. And was first registered, at London, on Mar. 24, 1863. LRs of 1862/63 & 1863/64, however, list the vessel as registered at London & owned by Ellisen & Co. (or Ellissen & Co.) for service from Sunderland to Siam (today Thailand). With 'Risdon' serving as the vessel's captain. LR of 1864/65 did list 'Ellisen' as her owner but then struck the name out, while LR of 1865/66 listed no owner name at all. The Merchant Navy List ('MNL') lists the vessel from 1864 thru 1869, registered at London thru 1866 & at Sunderland thereafter. MNLs of 1865 & 1866 advise that John Fredk. Priggen, of London, was then the owner or managing owner of the 318 ton London registered barque. From Apl. 18, 1866 thru May 02, 1866, Constance, then lying in West India Dock, London, was offered for sale at an auction held in London on May 03, 1866. An advertisement for such sale. It would seem that 'Barwick' of Sunderland must have been the high bidder. LR of 1866/67 lists Barwick & Co. of Sunderland, as her then owner for service from Sunderland to the Mediterranean. Such owner name is confirmed by MNLs of 1867 thru 1869 - J. S. Barwick, of Sunderland. Under 'Barwick' ownership there were, per LR, two captains - W. Gauntlett from 1866/67 thru 1867/68 & G. Wayman from 1867/68. 130.0 ft. long, signal letters VNCD, some crew lists are available via this page. LR of 1868/69 notes that Constance had been 'Wrecked'. I learn that on May 15, 1868, the vessel, 'Wayman' in command, arrived at Leghorn (Livorno, Italy) ex Sunderland. It went on to Taganrog (Rostov Oblast, Russia, Sea of Azov, Black Sea), arriving there on Jun. 20, 1868. It was later reported that the vessel had left Taganrog for England on Oct. 16, 1868. The webmaster was surprised to read the next reports, expecting to find a report that the vessel had passed into the Mediterranean. But the reports advised that on Nov. 25, 1868 Constance, en route in fact to Antwerp, Belgium, rather than to England, had capsized during a gale at Kertch (Ukraine, Crimea, Black Sea, S. of Taganrog). While carrying a cargo of rapeseed. It seems likely that the vessel in fact was lost on Nov. 23, 1868. Fortunately Theban, a steamship built at Port Glasgow in 1866, with Captain Stenhouse in command, en route to Kertch, came upon Constance with cargo shifted & her crew all freezing in the rigging. As Theban arrived on the scene, Constance turned over & sank. Theban successfully rescued Constance's entire crew of 10. Constance's captain, I read was G. R. Wayman - his deposition re the vessel's loss was filed at Sunderland on Jan. 14, 1869. Which deposition noted that the vessel was rather ex Yeisk (or Yeysk) also Sea of Azov. It would appear that at the time, Constance was owned by 'J. C. Barwick, Charles Taylor & Co.' of Sunderland. Per these contemporay newspaper reports - 1 & 2. It seems likely that the loaded Constance had been delayed in the area by severe weather, including ice, snow & high winds. Can you add to or correct the above account? #2825 J. MORISON maybe JOHN MORRISON Just a name at this moment. Any help you might provide re this Pallion shipbuilder would be much appreciated. For a long time. I have listed Forfarshire, built in 1867, as being built by Oswald. It would seem clear, however, via Lloyd's Registers, that Oswald was not the builder, rather it was built at Pallion by a builder named J. Morison. The vessel is now listed below. Names of vessels constructed by 'J. Morison'. As I find them. In a table in build date sequence. But, it seems that the builder, in fact, built one ship only i.e. Forfarshire as below. 1 Forfarshire 1238 tons Hull ? 56779 Gulfo Nuevo? 1867 A 3-masted composite fully rigged passenger sailing ship. Per 1 (Shaw Savill, Forfarshire), 2 (data & passenger list re 1873 voyage to Wellington, NZ, with 235 passengers), 3 (dates of 6 voyages to NZ), 4 (voyage details, 1875), 5 & 6 (images, ex Trove, Australia), 7 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 201.9 ft. long, built of teak wood, signal letters HNGP. Built, per Lloyd's Registers, by J. Morison of Sunderland for J. (John) Morison, in 1870 of Fenchurch Street, London. I guess different people of similar if not identical name? In 1873, the ship was sold to Shaw, Savill & Company, & commenced voyages to Australia & New Zealand ('NZ'). However, the Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') of 1880 lists the vessel as owned by Walter Savill of London & registered at Southampton. The vessel apparently had a permanent leak - a leak that was never found & required regular pumping. Forfarshire made six voyages to NZ in years 1873 to 1890, & more to Australia. Was damaged & repaired in 1877. A partial new deck in 1879. In 1882, the ship was transferred to The Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd., of London, registered at Southampton (MNL in 1890). On Jan. 04, 1893 Forfarshire rescued (extreme right column) the crew of Carl, waterlogged & derelict in the N. Atlantic at approx. 34N/40W. The vessel suffered significant damage while en route to Wellington, NZ, in 1894. In 1895, she was sold to the Argentine Republic. It likely was late in 1895, however because in Jul. 1895 the vessel left NZ for London. She may have ended her days as a hulk on the Thames river, however there is doubt as to the accuracy of the data. Off the registers in 1896. A friend of the site has forwarded 3 pages of Spanish text & an image (here, enlarged) data that he referenced Forfarshire, & apparently originated at Histarmar. If I understand the material correctly, the hulk, then named Gulfo Nuevo was used to store gunpowder likely at Buenos Aires. In 1910 or 1911, the vessel, described as a 'pontoon powder-keg', caught fire & sank when loaded with 60 tons of gunpowder. It may have been moored at Lord Ambrosio Canale, Zárate Park. I cannot find the material at Histarmar. The documentation does not refer to Forfarshire. Maybe this is, however, what finally happened to Forfarshire. Need help! Can you help with more data? Or correct the above. J. MORRICE Just a name at this moment. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated.  He would seem to have built just a single ship. 1   Agenoria 155 tons 1818 A brig. Agenoria? A minor Roman goddess who promoted activity. Then a popular name for a vessel, it would seem. Lloyd's Register ('LR') of 1820 listed 21 vessels of the name. Agenoria, which was launched in Jan. 1818, is LR listed from 1818 thru 1826 only - its life was very short. For all of those years, the vessels is LR listed as being owned by J. Barker except for 1820/21 in which year T. Burn was LR listed as the vessel's owner. Per LR, J. Laing was the vessel's captain thru to 1820 & J. Barker in all of the years thereafter. Barker must have been of Whitby. This 1908 Whitby shipping history page tells us that the vessel was first registered at Whitby in 1819 & was owned by J. Barker of Whitby. The vessel's service per LR? From London to Dantzig (Gdańsk, Poland) in 1818 & 1819, from Yarmouth to 'North', whatever that means, in 1820 & in both 1821 & 1822. From Yarmouth to London in LR of 1820/21. And from Hull to St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1823 thru 1826. The Whitby history page tells us that Agenoria was lost in the Baltic in 1826. I have seen that the vessel arrived at Pillau (now Baltysk, Russia) on Apl. 26, 1826 & returned to Whitby on Jun. 7, 1826 via Copenhagen - with Barker in command. And on Aug. 25, 1826 the vessel (Barker) arrived at Travemünde (mouth of the river Trave at Lübeck, Germany), ex London. On Sep. 26, 1826, Lloyd's List reported Agenoria, en route from Lübeck to London, had been lost on Anholt reef (Anholt is a Danish island, in the Kattegat, located about midway between Denmark & Sweden). With the loss of three lives. No specific date of loss is indicated. But this Danish page says it happened on Sep. 26, 1826. What had happened that day is truly extraordinary. The vessel's crew is noted to have been all saved but Barker, her master, his wife & child were all drowned. It is hard to think of circumstances that could have caused such an outcome. Is there anything you can add? And/or correct? #2572 MURRAY BROTHERS J. MURRAY & BROTHERS Just a name at this moment. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated.  He (or they) would seem to have built just 5 ships in the period of 1846 thru 1848. 1   John Murray 143 later 134 tons 2795 1847 A schooner. John Murray, which was launched in Apl. 1847, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1848/49 thru 1881/82. The vessel was owned initially, per LR, by Murray & Co. soon 'Murray', both of Sunderland, for service as a Cardiff coaster & possibly initially for service from Sunderland to the Baltic. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/9, in Apl. 1848 data, lists the vessel as then Sunderland registered & owned by J. & P. L. Murray & Co. of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland. This listing was revised & expanded, in Mar. 2023, when the webmaster spotted a reference to John Murray, of Sunderland, being ashore at Sunderland on Jan. 04, 1854. One of 10 vessels that were driven ashore there by a major gale which had hit the coasts of Durham & Northumberland. I think there were many more than 10, maybe 17 or more! The vessel was, I read, carrying a cargo of tea, coffee & other merchandise valued at £2,000 & was driven high on the beach behind the pier on the S. side, while attempting to enter the harbour. One article noted that she had gone aground rather behind the N. pier. Regardless, her crew were rescued by the valiant efforts of the Sunderland lifeboat. On Jan. 06, 1854, it was reported that the vessel had filled with water. While on Jan. 07, 1854, it was reported that John Murray & Yare (of Yarmouth) had been sold, presumably as is, for £108. Yare was not one of the vessels noted to have been stranded - it would seem to have been a 75 ton schooner, built at Wells in 1837. It was later reported that on the evening of Jan. 15, 1854, John Murray had been got off the beach & towed into harbour at Sunderland. It seems certain that this was 'our' John Murray. But I note that the webmaster has not spotted the name of her then captain. A matter which frequently permits the positive identification of a particular wrecked or stranded vessel. In 1853/54, per LR, 'Smurthwaite' of Sunderland became the vessel's owner for service as a Sunderland coaster. The webmaster presumes that he had acquired the damaged vessel at auction & later had her repaired & returned to service. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, in Mar. 1854 data, lists John Smurthwaite of Sunderland & Robert J. West of Newcastle as her then owners, with Joseph Lamb her captain. Turnbull's Shipping Register ('TR') of 1856 lists J. Smurthwaite of Sunderland & R. J. West of Newcastle as her then owners, which owner names are clarified by Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 to mean John Smurthwaite & Robert J. West. TR of 1855 lists R. Cunningham as the vessel's then captain. John Murray became, per LR, of 134 tons in 1860/61 in which year W. Parker, per LR, became the owner of the Exeter, Devon, registered vessel, thru 1874/75 at least, for service as a Newport, Wales, coaster, from 1862/63 for service as a Stockton coaster & from 1865/66 for service as a Falmouth coaster. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') records the vessel as registered at Sunderland from 1857 thru 1860 & registered at Exeter, Devon, from 1861 thru 1875. MNLs of 1865 thru 1874 (1870) all list William Parker of Exmouth, Devon, as the vessel's then owner while MNL of 1875 rather records Mrs. Jane Parker as her owner. I note that LR records 'W. Parker' as the vessel's captain from 1860/61 thru 1881/82. The vessel is not MNL listed in 1876 or later. However, in 1876/77, per LR, W. Watson is noted to have become the owner of the Exeter registered vessel. 81.5 ft. long, signal letters HQPG, many crew lists, thru 1874, are available via this page.. It would seem that the above summary contains significant errors of fact. Why do I say that? Because on Oct. 21, 1875, long before 1881/82, per this page, John Murray under the command of J. Steward (correctly 'Stewart') & owned by W. Watson of Seaham, stranded at a point 1/4 mile N. of Muchals Coastguard Station near Aberdeen, Scotland. And almost instantly was destroyed. Her crew of 4 was all lost. Stated to have been en route from Chatham, Kent, to Seaham in ballast - and a long way off course it would appear - driven north by adverse weather conditions. I wonder why the vessel was still LR registered as late as 1881/82? John Murray, far off course, was driven by a most powerful gale close to the shore near Stonehaven (S. of Aberdeen). A tremendous sea lifted the vessel & dropped her on a ledge of rock at the entrance to Muchalls harbour. A further sea turned the vessel over & a following sea both pulled her off the ledge & sank her. Three of the crew had been in the rigging - the fourth never made it there. It would have made no difference - all four crew members were lost. It all happened very quickly. The vessel was described as sailing 'light 'but that may well mean that the vessel was carrying fruit or apples. I note that there was confusion in the news reporting of the names & number of her crew. It seems clear however that John Stewart, of Aberdeen but then living at Seaham & related by marriage to the vessel's owner, was John Murray's master at the time of rhe vessel's loss - with 3 other crew members. Some contemporary news reports - 1, 2 & 3. Anything you can add? Or correct? #2746 MURRAY & NESBITT G. MURRAY & T. NESBITT G. Murray & T. Nesbitt, so far as I can see, built just a single vessel. And a tiny one at that. Listed below. If you have knowledge about this modest builder, do consider being in touch with the webmaster. 1   Brother & Sister 85 later 32 tons 2677 1847 The vessel, a schooner later a sloop, which was launched in May 1847, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') recorded from 1848/49 thru 1852/53 & not thereafter. For that brief period, LR records Brother & Sister at 85 tons & owned & captained by 'Forsyth' of Inverness, Scotland. For service as a Sunderland coaster. Crewlist.org.uk (scroll to #2677), however, seems to indicate that the vessel was of 32 tons & was first registered at Sunderland. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, in Mar. 1854 data, records Alex Thompson, of Sunderland, as the vessel's then owner & captain. While Turnbull's Shipping Registers of both 1855 & 1856 list A. Thompson, of Sunderland, as the then owner of the 32 ton Sunderland registered sloop. Which owner name is clarified by Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 to mean Alexander Thompson. On Apl. 19, 1862, per line 2727 here, the 32 ton sloop was abandoned at sea, N. of St. Abb's Head (Berwickshire, Scotland). While en route from Blyth to Port Dundas (Glasgow) with a cargo of iron. Crew of 3 - none lost. Vessel then stated to be owned by Alexander Thompson. I read that the Edinburgh Evening Courant of Apl. 28, 1862 published a text ex Lloyd's List of Apl. 26, 1862, i.e. (webmaster adjusted) 'The BROTHER & SISTER (sloop) of this port, Watson, from Blyth to Port Dundas, with iron, lost her mast in a gale on the 19th Apl. between Dunbar and St. Abb's Head, and was abandoned the same evening in a sinking state; crew saved.' D. Watson, David Watson I see, was the vessel's captain at the time. The actual Lloyd's List text can be read here. Such words seem to indicate that the vessel was registered at or near Edinburgh. I note in that regard that the Mercantile Navy List records the vessel as Sunderland registered from 1857 thru 1863. Anything you can add? #2806 WILLIAM NAISBY WILLIAM NAIZBY REAY & NAISBY (or NAIZBY) W. NAISBY & BULMER I have added in the above builder names not because I know much about them, but rather because I spotted that one of the vessels that had been recorded later in the site as being 'builder unknown' was in fact built by 'Naizby'. We need your help to learn more about the above names. That said, I have seen & thank the 'Sunderland Maritime Heritage' site which used to (no longer) record Wm. Naisby (1841) and/or Wm. Naizby (1847 thru 1867) as a Hylton shipbuilder. Stated to have been at High Ford Dockyard, a site occupied in 1863 by Reay & Naisby (we were asked to note the changed spelling), & later occupied by John Wigham & Sons Ltd. Located just east of the ferry. Your input would be welcomed. To add to the record. A list of Sunderland built vessels, available to the webmaster, lists 68 vessels built by W. Naisby between 1836 & 1867. 1   Traveller 262/264 tons 1837 The webmaster has two Sunderland build lists available to him. Which name the builder as, respectively, 'W. Naisby' & 'W. Naizby'. A snow or brig, launched in Apl. or May 1837, which is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1837/38 thru 1849/50 & not thereafter. Traveller was, per LR, owned thru 1845/46 by 'Thompson' of Sunderland. For service, per LR, from Sunderland to Quebec, Canada, thru 1841/42 & from Liverpool to Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, from 1842/43 thru 1845/46. With W. Booth her captain thru 1842/43 & 'Needham' from 1842/43 thru 1845/46. In 1846/47, per LR, the vessel became owned by Alcock & Co. of Sunderland, thru 1847/48, for service from Sunderland to Hamburg, Germany - with 'Mills' her captain thru 1847/48 & indeed thru 1849/50 under new ownership. LR records 'Watson' of Sunderland as Traveller's owner in 1848/49 & 1849/50, though the LR data in 1849/50 is modest which suggests the vessel might then have been in process of sale. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/9, in Apl. 1848 data, lists J. Watson, of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, as her then owner. It seems clear that the vessel was indeed sold. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, in Mar. 1854 data, lists Robert Stephenson, of Sunderland, as the vessel's owner with Geo. Blair her then captain. So far as the webmaster can see, 'Blair' was the vessel's captain from Mar. thru Nov. 1853 - on Nov. 25, 1853, the vessel arrived at Sunderland ex London with 'Blair' in command. This vessel was site listed when the webmaster found a dramatic newspaper report about the vessel's demise in early 1854. On Jan. 08, 1854, Traveller, noted to have then been owned by 'Stephenson', was one of two vessels that were driven ashore near Sunderland - by 'the violence of the sea' & high winds. In Traveller's case near the Blue House about a mile south of the harbour. Near Ryhope, I read. The crew safely got to shore. The webmaster has not spotted the name of her then captain. While it may well have been 'Blair', it might have rather been somebody else. At the end of Jan. 1854, the vessel, excluding the rigging, was reported to have been sold for £220. In early Feb. 1854, the purchaser of the vessel organised a body of carpenters to repair & right Traveller, which at that time was on shore with a hole in her bottom 15 ft. long & 9 ft. wide. They dug a trench around her keel, covered the hole in her bottom, & with many floatation devices got her off. At 5 a.m. on Feb. 15, 1854, with 17 hands aboard her, she was taken in tow by Ranger, a steam tug. Bad timing! A strong gale from the north arose, & when off Hendon, Traveller was found to be sinking. Ranger was hailed but apparently took no notice whatsoever. Near to the entrance to South Dock, Traveller lurched to one side, filled & turned over. The men clung to the rigging with their heads just above water, soon benumbed with the cold, with heavy seas rolling over them. Ranger cut the tow line but apparently did absolutely nothing to save the 17. Their cries were, however, heard on land, & about three-quarters of an hour later a coble, John Davison, a fisherman, in command, went out to the scene. He & his crew bravely effected a rescue of 11 of the men & rowed them over to Ranger. When he returned to the wreck scene, three of the remainder had disappeared. Others had meantime come to the rescue & the last 3 were got safely into the coble. All per this contemporary report. Which names the three who were lost. Can you add to or correct the above? #2732 2   Employ 261/278, maybe later 249 tons 3648 1840 The webmaster has two Sunderland build lists available to him. Which name the builder as, respectively, 'W. Naisby' & 'W. Naizby & Bulmer'. A snow or brig, launched in Mar. 1840, which is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1839/40 thru 1861/62 with the exception of 1849/50. Employ was, per LR, owned thru 1853/54 by 'Graydon' of Sunderland, for consistent service ex Sunderland to i) Bordeaux, France, thru 1842/43, ii) Canada, from 1843/44 thru 1848/49, iii) Quebec, Canada, in 1850/51 & 1851/52, & iv) America, in 1852/53 & 1853/54. With 'Fullerton' per LR serving as the vessel's captain thru 1848/49 at least, 'Hoskins' in 1850/51 & 1851/52 but in late 1849 also I see, & J. Th'mpsn (presumably Thompson) in 1852/53 & 1853/54. The North of England Maritime Directory of Apl. 1848 lists J. Graydon, of Monkwearmouth, as the vessel's then owner. It is noted above that the vessel was not listed in LR of 1849/50. Such 'omission' may well have been caused by Employ going aground, on Nov. 11, 1849, (in red), at Öland, (off SE coast of Sweden). She was, at the time, on a voyage from St. Petersburg, Russia, to London, 'Hoskins' in command, with a cargo of deals. The vessel did not suffer any damage but she came off only after a portion of her cargo was jettisoned. Wikipedia, I see, notes that she was refloated by Nov. 20, 1849 & resumed her voyage. In the period of 1854/55 thru 1856/57, LR records T. Motley of Shields as the vessel's owner, with J. Brodie her captain, for service in 1854/55 (the only year where service is indicated) from Shields to London. Marwood's North of England Maritime Directory of 1854 records Thomas Motley of North Shields as her then owner with James Wintrim her then captain. The data from this point is contradictory. MNL (scroll to #3648) records the vessel as registered at London on Apl. 11, 1854. I suspect that 'Motley' only owned the vessel for a short time & from that 1854 date, rather than from 1857/58 as recorded by LR, Scott & Co., of London, was the vessel's owner with J. Scott her captain. Only limited data is LR recorded re her intended 'Scott' voyages, but service ex Shields is mostly indicated incl. to the Baltic in 1857/58. There likely was one final owner - of name presently unknown. I say that because while MNLs from 1857 thru 1862 record the vessel as London registered, MNL of 1863 lists the vessel as rather registered at South Shields. A few crew lists are available. What happened to the vessel? The MNL link above, seems to tell us that the vessel foundered on Nov. 12, 1867. But Wikipedia tells us (thanks!), per two articles in the 'Newcastle Courant', that on Mar. 24, 1863, while en route from Newcastle to Copenhagen, Denmark, the brig ran aground & sank off Skagen, (northern tip of Denmark). Her crew were rescued by Elizabeth Jane (probably the 77 ton schooner, a 'prize', owned & captained by T. Brodie, of Sunderland). It would be good to be able to read the two 'Newcastle Courant' artclies - of Mar. 27 & Apl. 3, 1863. Can you add to and/or correct the above? If so, do consider being in touch with the webmaster. #2412 3   Colonist 390, later 358 tons 11934 1847 The webmaster has two Sunderland build lists available to him. Which name the builder of Colonist as, respectively, 'W. Naisby' & 'W. Naizby'. Colonist, a barque, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1846/47 thru 1862/63, owned initially by 'Coulson' of Scarborough for service to Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, initially ex Sunderland but later ex London. Also to Sydney, Australia. Colonist left Sunderland on Jun. 03, 1847 & arrived at Hobart Town on Oct. 01, 1847 with 265 tons of coal & a general cargo which included earthenware & glass. It later left for London on Jan. 01, 1848 with 4 passengers. It arrived at Hobart again, ex Liverpool, on Nov. 09, 1848 with 28 passengers & later (Jan. 20, 1849) left for Auckland, then to Hokianga, both New Zealand, to load timber for Hobart. More voyages to the area, returning via U.S.A. - check at Trove, Australia. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/55, in 1853 data, records the Scarborough registered Colonist as owned by John Hill Coulson & Thomas Headley, both of Scarborough, with Thomas Headley then her captain. The webmaster notes that on Aug. 18, 1853, the vessel, then lying at London, was offered for sale by the executors of the late John Hill Coulson. As per this contemporary sale announcement. LR of 1854/55 lists Page & Co., of London, as Colonist's new owner, also for Australia - with R. Winter her then captain. But soon for the Clyde to S. America. LR of 1856/57 records the brief ownership of Smith & Co. of London. It would seem that on or prior to Sep. 04, 1856 (in blue), the vessel became owned by William Shout of South Shields & registered at Shields. So LR of 1857/58, records W. Shout of Shields as her owner for service to the Mediterranean ex Shields & ex Cork, Ireland. Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 confirms the William Shout of Shields ownership. 102.9 ft. long. No crew lists seem to be available. What finally happened to Colonist? LR of 1862/63 notes that the vessel was 'LOST'. But rather earlier - on Nov. 16, 1860! Per line 997 here, on Nov. 16, 1860, the 358 ton barque went missing while en route from Taganrog (Rostov Oblast, Russia, Sea of Azov, Black Sea) to the U.K. with a cargo of wheat. The entire crew of 12 were lost. The vessel is stated to have been then owned by William Shout. I learn that Colonist had arrived at Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), ex Taganrog, on Nov. 15, 1860 & on the next day i.e. Nov. 16, 1860, it departed for Falmouth for orders. 'Mitchell' was the name of the vessel's captain at the time. As per this 'Lloyd's Register' report. Roy Winter tells us (thanks!) that 'In the churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene Church at Yarm, North Yorkshire, there is a memorial to Fredrick McClough who died aboard Colonist when at the Chincha islands on Nov. 24, 1855'. The Chincha Islands, noted for their guano deposits, are located off the SW coast of Peru. Is there anything you can add? Or correct? #2730 4   Louisa 205 later 192 tons 2762 1847 The webmaster believes that this newspaper article (in blue) records the spectacular launch of Louisa on Jun. 14, 1847. The vessel is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1848/49 thru 1864/65, then, after a long absence, the vessel is again listed from 1874/75 thru 1876/77. I had previously indicated in this spot that W. Legender was the vessel's initial owner but it looks to have been Thompson ('Thompsn') for a short period at least - but LR is very confused about the matter. Anyway, from quite early, W. Legender of Sunderland owned Louisa thru 1857/58. For service ex Sunderland. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/9, in Apl. 1848 data, lists W. Legender of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, as her then owner. W. Legender was the vessel's captain, per LR, in 1848/49, & 'Legender' from from 1850/51 thru 1857/58. It would seem that there were two 'Legenders', both Wm. Legender, father & son. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, in Mar. 1854 data, records Wm. Legender of Sunderland as Louisa's owner & Wm. Legender jun. as her then captain. Similar data is reported by Turnbull's Shipping Register ('TR') of 1855. The vessel must have been sold in late 1855 or early 1856. TR of 1856 lists the Sunderland registered 192 ton vessel as owned by J. Walton & E. W. Ranson, both of Sunderland. From 1858/59 thru 1864/65, per LR, 'Walton', of Sunderland, was the vessel's owner for service as a Sunderland coaster. The data in LR of years 1859/60 thru 1864/65 is minimal indeed, & particularly provides no destination data. The LR data as to the period of the 'Walton' ownership looks to be quite suspect. Since Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 lists Louisa as then owned by Charles Smart of Little Hampton (Littlehampton in Sussex, I presume). LRs of 1874/75 & 1875/76 lists the vessel as Arundel, Sussex, registered & owned by W. Smart. The Mercantile Navy Lists ('MNL') from 1859 thru 1874 record the vessel as registered at Arundel, Sussex (previously at Sunderland). MNLs of 1865 thru 1874 (1870) all list William Smart of Houghton, Sussex, as her owner or managing owner. The webmaster happened to spot that on Mar. 31, 1874, by order of the High Court of the Admiralty, Louisa was to be sold at an auction to be held in London. The vessel was then lying at Sunderland. A sample advertisement (in red). The vessel must have been acquired by John McKeeth of Sunderland. MNLs of 1875 thru 1877 (1876) report Louisa as Sunderland registered again & owned by John McKeeth of Sunderland. LR of 1876/77 lists J. Mckeeth of Sunderland as her then owner. The vessel is not listed in MNL of 1878. 122.0 ft. long, later (per LR of 1874/75 & 1876/77 of 83.0 ft. only) - the lower value likely was correct. Signal letters HQMC, later WSVJ (from MNL of 1875), many crew lists are available via this page. On what seems likely to have been the vessel's final voyage, Louisa, on Jan. 06, 1877, left Sunderland for Trouville, France (S. of Le Havre), with a cargo of 300 tons of coal. With 'Smith' her captain. A troubled voyage, it would appear, surely as a result of bad weather. On Jan. 28, 1877, when off Cape La Heve, (means Cap de la Hève, France, just N. of Le Havre, I believe) Louisa encountered a 'complete gale' which caused damage to the vessel. As a result of which the vessel went back across the channel to Dungeness (S. shore of Kent), & stayed there 8 or 9 days, perhaps being repaired. On Feb. 21, 1877, leaky & with its pumps choked, Louisa tried to enter the harbour at Dieppe, France, but struck on the bar & ended up on the beach to the east of the pier there. Where it broke up. Her crew were all saved. This U.K. Government wreck listing tells us that Louisa's captain, at the time of her loss, was J. Smith. Some contemporary newspaper reports - 1, 2 & 3. Can you tell us anything additional? #2886 5 Saint George 341 tons 13349 1857 Saint George, a barque, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed only from 1857/58 thru 1861/62. Her sole owner during such period was Smith & Co. of Sunderland, initially for service from Sunderland to North America, from 1858/59 just ex Sunderland. J. Smith is listed as the vessel's captain during such period. Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 advises that the vessel's then owners were Edward & John Smith, of Sunderland. Saint George is Mercantile Navy List listed from 1858 thru 1861 only, always registered at Sunderland. On May 06, 1861, per line 1216 here, the 341 ton barque was wrecked south of Cape Bon (a peninsula in NE Tunisia located across from western Sicily), while en route from Trieste, Italy, to Falmouth with a cargo of maize. Crew of 12 - none lost. Then owned by John Smith. This contemporary news report (in blue) advises that 'Smith' was in command at the time. A later report from Tunis reported that the vessel had gone to pieces and that all the cargo had been lost. Can you add anything? #2840 6 Silome 430 (later 431) tons 28793 1860 A 3 masted barque. 128 ft. 0 in. long, signal letters QBWL. Vessel not listed at Miramar. I am grateful for the information provided by eBay vendor scott-base. Whose expired listing advised that the vessel was built in 1860 & owned by J. Clay of Sunderland. The Mercantile Navy List of 1870 states J. J. Clay. In 1879, the vessel was sold to A. Wilhelmsen, of Norway (no name change). In 1880, the vessel was stranded at Lyskil, Sweden, but was later refloated. Out of register in 1896. Can you add anything? 7   Constance & Amelia or Constance Amelia 365 tons 50115 1864 The barque, which was launched on Oct. 01, 1864 & first registered (Constanca Amelia) at London on Oct. 17, 1864 (scroll to #50115), is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed in 1865/66 & 1866/67 only - as Constanca & Amelia - for service from Sunderland to South America. Owned, per LR, by G. C. Scott of London with 'Buick' her captain. There would appear to be confusion as to the vessel's correct name. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') records Constanca Amelia as first registered at London on Oct. 17, 1864. But MNL of 1865 records Constance Amelia as owned by David Cooper Scott, of London. And this report re the vessel's launch names the vessel Constance and Amelia. The webmaster suspects that Constance & (or and) Amelia is correct. And that references to 'Constanca' are likely in error. 116.5 ft. long, signal letter WGRV, an 1866 crew list is available here. Some 'best-efforts' operational data. i) On Feb. 07, 1865, Constance and Amelia arrived at Maceio (Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil) ex Bahia, Brazil. ii) On Jun. 05, 1865 Constance and Amelia (Buick) was entered out of Liverpool for Bahia & on Oct. 16, 1865 Constance & Amelia (Puick) was at Queenstown, Ireland ex Bahia to go on to the Clyde (arr. Oct. 30, 1865). iii) On Dec. 06, 1865, Constance and Amelia (Buick) arrived at Cardiff, Wales, ex Greenock, Scotland. On May 25, 1866, Constance & Amelia was cleared out of Pernambuco, NE Brazil, for Liverpool & per Lloyd's List ('LL') Constance Amelie (Burich) arrived at Liverpool ex Pernambuco on Jul. 06, 1866. What finally happened to the vessel? Lloyd's Register of 1866/67 notes that the vessel had been 'Lost'. On Aug. 10, 1866, Constance and Amelia (Thetland) left Liverpool for Buenos Ayres, Argentina, (but maybe on Aug. 15, 1866 with 'Hielnad' in command). In a report from Monte Video on Nov. 14, 1866, Constance and Amelia, 'Thaterd' in command, en route from Liverpool to Rosario (near Buenos Aires, Argentina) had been lost on Nov. 01, 1866. LL later clarified that on Oct. 29, 1866, during a very heavy gale, Constance Amelia had been lost on the Ciurassier Bank, one of many 'banks' off the S. shore of the River Plate. Her crew were all saved. As per these contemporary news reports - 1 & 2. Can you tell us anything additional? #2824 8 Sancho (a snow or brig) 288 later 281/288 & 286/294 (N/G) tons 1866 The vessel, which was launched on Sep. 25, 1866, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1866/67 thru 1887/88. From 1866/67 thru 1872/73, per LR, Sancho was owned by Lawson & Co., of Blyth, Northumberland, for service, again per LR, from Sunderland to Spain in 1866/67 & for service from Blyth to the Mediterranean thereafter. With G. Cowans (T. Cowan in LR of 1866/67) her captain thru 1870/71 & A. (Andrew) Robinson from 1870/71 thru 1872/73. It would seem that 'Lawson' (related to 'Dent') ceased to own Sancho earlier than LR's 1872/73. The Mercantile Navy Lists ('MNL') of 1867 thru 1870 all record George Lawson, of Blyth, as the vessel's then managing owner. But in 1871, per MNL, Sancho became owned by Dent & Co., also of Blyth. LRs of 1872/73 thru 1886/87 all record 'Dent' as the vessel's owner ('Dent & Co.' from 1872/73 thru 1875/76 & from 1879/80 thru 1886/87, & 'Dent, Hodgson & Co.' from 1876/77 thru 1878/79). LRs also record that from 1877/78 the vessel became registered at North Shields. However, MNLs record the vessel's ownership & registration rather differently. Per MNL the vessel was, from 1867, always registered at North Shields, owned by John Dent of Blyth from 1871 thru 1879 & from 1880 to 1885 (at least) rather owned by Phoenix Shipping Co. Ltd., of Blyth. A company incorporated by the Dent family & their associates in 1879 to hold their then 10 vessel shipping interests - clearly a different company than another company of similar name - Phoenix of Hartlepool. During the period of Dent/Phoenix ownership, W. Lord served as Sancho's captain thru 1878/79 (from mid 1871 per Bill Swift). Then 'Battensby' in 1878, Henry Rhodes from 1878/79 thru 1880/81, A. Stephen briefly, C. Newgreen from 1881/82 thru 1883/84 & E. (Edward) Milgate (or Millgate) from 1883/84 thru to 1887/88. Bill Swift advises that W. Lord, correctly William Robert Lord, sailed for Dent & Co. between 1869 & 1897 & was also a painter. In 1894, Mackenzie and Storrie, of Leith, Scotland (later Mackenzie & Storrie Ltd., of Edinburgh), published 'Reminiscences of a Sailor', Lord's autobiography. Such autobiography was republished in 2010 by the British Library, I learn. Such volume contained an image of Lord's painting of Sancho - which image is available at left. In or about May 1866, Sancho was sold, for about £500, to Sancho Shipping Company, which company was managed by Dent & Co. 'The "Sancho" Shipping Co. Ltd.', of Sea View, Northumberland, per MNLs of 1887 & 1888. 109.3 ft. long, signal letters LDHQ, a great many Sancho crew lists are available via here. What finally happened to Sancho? LR of 1887/88 notes that the vessel had gone 'Missing'. On Dec. 09, 1887, Sancho left the Tyne for Bonanza, near Cadiz, Spain, under the command of Edward Millgate (or Milgate) of Blyth & with a crew of 9 all told. The vessel passed Gravesend & was never heard from again - it is presumed that it was lost during a severe hurricane in the Bay of Biscay on Dec. 26 thru Dec. 29, 1888. These contemporary reports (1, 2 & 3) set out what is known about the loss, with a few inaccuracies, alas. I refer above to Bill Swift, whose research into the vessel's history in 2015 was the inspiration for both the earlier Sancho listing & this 2022 expanded & revised version. You can read Bill Swift's Sancho paper here. His page 3 provides a list of the crew members of Sancho who went missing with the vessel. Is there anything you can add? Or correct? #2670 9   L. R. H., later Amalia (a barque) 389 later 419/431 (N/G) tons 1867 A listing created to respond to a guestbook message. The webmaster's search for data re this vessel was handicapped by uncertainty as to the vessel's initial name. The webmaster believes that L.R.H. is the correct initial name but two Sunderland build lists refer, rather, to L. R'e H. as also do Lloyd's Registers ('LR') for many years. Anyway, the vessel was launched on Aug. 15, 1867. It was sold to Spanish owners, intended for the Manila trade, but alas, unnamed in the available launch report. However this advertisement for a departure ex Liverpool for Havana, Cuba, in Jan. 1868, confirms that L. R. H. was, indeed, the vessel's correct name. The vessel is listed by LR from 1867/68 thru 1879/80, as L. R'e H., owned by L. R. Hijos of Bilbao, northern coast of Spain, (from 1869/79 Lino Ruize hijos). For service per LR from Sunderland to Bilbao from 1867/68 thru 1872/73 & from Liverpool to the West Indies in 1873/74. With 'Barino' (correctly 'Bareno') noted to have always been the vessel's captain thru 1879/80. Is this the vessel in 1873 (in red)? I think so. And in 1879 (again in red), then owned by D. Laureano Ruiz. LRs of 1878/79 & 1879/80 both state that the vessel, now of 419 tons, had been renamed Amalia, & was now owned by L. Uria, of Bilbao. With, again per LR, 'VB'rrojain' the vessel's now captain, thru 1881/82. In such LR editions, Amalia was noted to be late 'L. Ré H.' For the next 8 years, LR does not record the vessel at all. LR coverage recommenced in 1890/91 & continued thru 1899/1900 with J. A. Gorocica noted to be the vessel's owner in 1890/91 & T. de Gorocica thereafter. With a number of captain's names referenced - 'Torres' in 1890/91, 'Ciluaga' from 1891/92 thru 1894/95 & 'Oliver' (likely incorrect) from 1896/97. From 1890/91, Amalia was LR noted to be ex L. R. & H. It is clear that 'J. A. Gorocica' became the vessel's owner far earlier than 1899/1900. Here, in 1884, the vessel was owned by D. Juan Antonio Gorocica, of Bilbao. In 1893 & 1898 also, I see. My guestbook correspondent refers to Compañía Marítima Gorocica S.A., a Spanish shipping company, as the vessel's owner. In 1903 of Guernica (just E. of Bilbao), Viscaya, Spain. The webmaster has not been particularly successful in trying to locate operational details for the vessel. Just a few 'snippets' of data, accordingly. On Sep. 3, 1867, L.R.H., 'Bareno' in command, was at Sunderland to be loaded, surely with a cargo of coal, for a voyage to Bilbao. On Jul. 8, 1868, L.R.H. (Bareno) arrived at Queenstown, Ireland, ex Havana. Fast forward! On Jul. 11, 1887, Amalia (Torres) arrived at Barcelona, Spain, ex Cienfuegos, Cuba. On Nov. 18, 1895, the vessel, 'Ciluaga' in command arrived at Havana, ex Barcelona & Alicante, Spain. On May 25, 1893, the vessel arrived at Cardiff ex Liverpool in ballast. On Jun. 11, 1893, with 'Celano' noted to be in command, the vessel left Cardiff for Sant Feliu de Guíxols (NE Mediterranean coast of Spain). On Nov. 16, 1898, with 'Roca' in command, the vessel arrived at Santos (São Paulo, Brazil) ex Barcelona. 125.9 ft. long, from 1890/91 123 ft., signal letters HRTB, later HBTJ. What finally happened to Amalia? LR of 1899/1900 notes that the vessel had been 'Lost by Collision'. I learn that in Jan. 1900, Amalia, 'Roca' (her captain since Nov. 1898 at least) in command, was en route from Brunswick, Georgia, U.S.A., to Palma, Majorca, Spain, with a cargo of timber. When 52 days out of Brunswick & 200 miles from the Straits of Gibraltar, Regina Margherita, an 1884 steamship, supplied Amalia with casks of water & provisions to replace those Amalia had lost during a gale. The date of that re-provisioning is not stated however a report from Gibraltar on Jan. 23, 1900 advised that Amalia had lost overboard 'about 50 deals deckload'. It would seem that Amalia had encountered major bad weather on her voyage across the North Atlantic. The webmaster would be remiss if he did not advise that a great many contemporary news reports stated that the Brunswick referred to was rather New Brunswick, in Canada. Incorrectly, the webmaster believes. So far as I can see, the vessel, 'Roca' in command, left Palma on Nov. 29, 1899 for Brunswick, Georgia.  On Jan. 29, 1900, off Cape Palos (near Cartagena, E. coast of Spain), Les Andes, a steamship, collided with Amalia, which was severely damaged as a result. I have not read about the then weather conditions. Amalia's 15 man crew were taken aboard Les Andes & in due course were landed at Malaga, Spain. Amalia was left abandoned, drifting in an ENE direction & was later reported to have sunk. I note that Les Andes was a 2110/4164 ton (N/G) steamhip built by Harland & Wolff of Belfast in 1882 - as British Prince - owned in 1900 by 'Société Générale de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur', of Marseilles, France. Can you add anything? Or correct the above in any way? #2668 10   Marion Neil (a barque) 379/399 later 407 tons 63840 1871 Marion Neil, which was launched in Jul. 1871 & first registered at Glasgow, Scotland, on Aug. 14, 1871, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1871/72 thru 1885/86 only. It was, per LR, initially owned by Dunlop & Co., of Glasgow, for service, where LR noted, from Sunderland to America in 1871/72 & from the Clyde to America from 1871/72 thru 1873/74. The Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') records the vessel as registered at Glasgow from 1872 thru 1877, always owned by Thos. Dunlop of that city. A Sunderland shipping website, which site requests no links or recognition, tells us that the vessel was initially owned by Thomas Dunlop, John Neil & Andrew Reid, all of Glasgow. During the period of 'Dunlop' ownership, the vessel had, per LR, five captains - 'Stediford' initially but for just a short time, W. Alexander from 1871/72 thru 1874/75, 'Woods' for maybe a year, & 'Menzies' from 1875/76 thru 1876/77. I read that James Menzies, in Mar. 1878 became the master of Clan Grant, also owned by 'Dunlop', built in 1878 by David & William Henderson & Co. of Glasgow. In 1876/77, per LR, J. Hardie became Marion Neil's owner. Of London most certainly. MNLs of 1878 thru 1885 (1880) all record the vessel as London registered & owned by Jas. Hardie of London. S. Millham, per LR, was consistently noted to be the vessel's captain while 'Hardie' owned. A few 'best-efforts' Marion Neil operational 'snippets'. On Jun. 21, 1878, the vessel, 'Millham' in command, arrived at Cardiff, Wales, ex Liverpool, in ballast. On Jun. 29, 1878, the vessel was entered outwards for departure from Cardiff to Mauritius with 657 tons of coal. On May 30, 1881, the vessel was again cleared for departure from Cardiff to Mauritius with 700 tons of coal. On Dec. 17, 1881, the vessel arrived at London from Oumaru, New Zealand. In Jul. 1883, the vessel arrived at London, Millham in command, ex Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). On Apl. 22, 1884, the vessel arrived at Sydney, New South Wales ('NSW'), Australia, now with John Paterson in command, ex Port Louis, Mauritius. With a cargo of sugar, which entire cargo was offered for sale at Sydney, by public auction, on May 31, 1884. In May & Jun. 1884, the vessel itself was offered for sale at Sydney. I presume it was not sold because on Jun. 25, 1884, the vessel left Sydney for Newcastle, NSW, Paterson in command, there to load 622 tons of coal for Mauritius (left Newcastle Jul. 17, 1884) & presumably, in due course, for London. 130.3 ft. long, signal letters KMNF, built of oak, crew lists are available via here. What finally happened to Marion Neil? LR of 1885/86 notes that the vessel had been 'Wrecked'. I learn that the vessel, John Paterson in command & with a general cargo, had arrived at East London, South Africa, ex London, on Aug. 07, 1885. It was still there on Sep. 05, 1885, moored at Orient Beach, 100 yards E. of the Buffalo River, when the area was hit by a strong south-east gale. Unfortunately, the vessel's cables parted & the vessel was driven ashore. Marion Neil was in due course surveyed & condemned. The vessel's crew were, I read, all landed safely. Much of its cargo was saved. As per these (1 & 2) contemporary news reports. Can you add anything? Or correct the above in any way? #2673 THOMAS NICHOLSON (1768-1811) There is, I learn, a brief reference to the builder in an 1892 book entitled 'Sunderland: A History of the Town, Port, Trade and Commerce', written by Taylor Potts. Available here as a 'Google' book, the text re Thomas Nicholson can be read below & seen in its original form here. THOMAS NICHOLSON Had his shipbuilding yard and graving docks in Bishopwearmouth-Panns, they were known as Nicholson's docks. Mr. Nicholson lived in the large double three-storied house in Panns, standing a short distance back from the line of street, with railings in front and stone steps up to the doorway, on each side of which were round pillars; the house almost faced the gates of the shipbuilding yard and docks.      In 1798 Mr. Nicholson bought the large house at the south-east corner of the Green from Teasdale Mowbray, and removed from the Panns to the house on the Green. In the year 1799 Mr. Nicholson obtained permission to enclose the Green under certain specified conditions. See "grant de novo." Any visitor who so wishes can access the book via the link above & find 'Grant de Novo' after page 324 at the end of the book - in the Appendix. So far as I can see, Thomas Nicholson built 31 vessels at Sunderland in the period from 1768 to 1811. W. NICHOLSON The webmaster has no knowedge of this shipbuilder, who would seem to have built 11 vessels in the period from 1864 thru 1870. I note that there would seem to have been an earlier shipbuider of the name. Who built just two vessels, one in 1822 & the other in 1824. 1   Mangosteen 352 tons 1867 Mangosteen? Three species of tree that grow in SE Asia - one of the species produces an edible fruit, rather like an orange but with a hard purple rind. A strange name, perhaps, for a vessel that served South America. Mangosteen, a barque which was launched on Aug. 03, 1867 & first registered at Sunderland on Sep. 30, 1867, is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1867/68 thru 1872/73, owned for that entire period by Nicholson & Sons (probably Wm. Nicholson & Sons) of Sunderland. By its builder it would seem. Initially for service from Sunderland to South America, in 1870/71 for service from Swansea, Wales, to Montreal, Canada, & from 1871/72 for service from Swansea to South America. I note in passing that the owners must have been partial to the name Mangosteen. 'Nicholson' also owned a vessel of identical name (ON #23718), a 427/425 ton barque, built by 'Harkass' at Sunderland in 1855. The Mercantile Navy Lists of 1868 thru 1872 (1870) all list William Nicholson, of Sunderland, as her then owner. 124.2 ft. long, some crew lists are available via this page. What finally happened to Mangosteen? LR of 1872/73 states 'Missing'. On Nov. 13, 1871, per line 2196 here (a U.K. Government wreck listing), the 352 ton barque left Porthcawl (W. of Cardiff & SE of Swansea) for Valparaiso, Chile, with a cargo of coal. And went missing en route. Crew of 13 - all lost. Then owned by William Nicholson. The circumstances of her loss have not yet come to hand. I read that 'Edwards' was her captain on that final voyage. Is there anything you can add? And/or correct? #2762 G. NOBLE Just a name at this moment. A shipbuilder that would seem to have built just nine vessels in the period from 1838 thru 1841. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. 1   Ancona 243/243 later 243 & 222 tons 5229 1840 A snow or brig. Ancona was Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1840/41 thru 1869/70 with the exception of 1849/50. Ancona vessel was initially owned by G. Noble of Sunderland, i.e. presumably by its builder, for service from Sunderland to London. With J. Noble, per LR, serving as the vessel's captain. Soon however, in 1842/43, Woods & Co., of Sunderland became her owner, for service from Sunderland to the West Indies. Thru 1846/47 per LR, with 'Soulsby' LR noted to have been her captain thru such period. In 1846/47, 'Hutchinson' of Sunderland became Ancona's owner (maybe initially Hutchinson Dixon & Co. - the LR data is hard to read) - for service from Sunderland to the Mediterranean. With 'Perry' her captain, at least thru 1848/49. I note that the North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/9, in Apl. 1848 data, tells us that the vessel was then Sunderland registered & owned by R. Hutchinson, of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, & J. Penny of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It would seem likely that 'Perry' & J. Penny were one & the same person. In 1850/51, LR lists 'Lisle' of Hartlepool as the vessel's new owner (from 1853/54 W. Lisle), thru 1869/70, for service mainly ex Hartlepool to destinations over the years such as London, France (1851/52, 1852/53 & 1856/57), Hamburg, Germany (in 1853/54), & the Baltic (in 1857/58), although for 2 years, i.e. in 1854/55 & 1855/56, the vessel is described as being a Yarmouth coaster. Turnbull's Shipping Register ('TR') of 1856, in 1855 data, lists W. Lisle of Hartlepool as the then owner of the Hartlepool registered Ancona, with B. Harrold her then captain. LR does not reference 'Harrold' but does record J. Blackey as the vessel's captain from 1850/51 thru 1852/53, 'Tullock' in 1853/54, J. Metcalf in 1854/55 & 1855/56 & J. Cluness thereafter thru 1869/70 (T. Cluness, probably in error, in 1856/57). Such owner name, i.e. 'Lisle', is clarified by Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 to mean William Lisle. Now the Mercantile Navy Lists ('MNL') record matters rather differently. They tell us that Ancona was Hartlepool registered from 1853, West Hartlepool registered from 1864, & that the vessel was owned from 1865 thru 1870 by Robert Hutchinson, of West Hartlepool. It would seem likely that 'Hutchinson' & 'Lisle' were business associates & that both owned shares in Ancona. Perhaps 'Hutchinson' was the vessel's managing owner & hence the MNL record? It would be good to be able to find data which confirms that situation. Can anybody clarify? 86.0 ft. long, signal letters JGSN, crew lists are available via here. What finally happened to Ancona? LR of 1869/70 advises that the vessel had been 'Lost'. On Mar. 04, 1870, per line 760 here, the 223 ton brig foundered at sea while en route from Hartlepool to London. Crew of 8 - all lost. And also per line 12 on this page which states that the vessel, carrying a cargo of coal, was lost near Yarmouth & further states that the crew, all lost, was 7 persons only. Then stated to be owned by Robert Hutchinson. The webmaster has sought additional details as to the vessel's loss & hoped to find a contemporary newspaper report which named those who were lost & specifically named Ancona's then captain. It is clear that a powerful gale & high seas hit the Yarmouth area in early Mar. 1870 & that vessels which had the misfortune to be driven onto the nearby Scroby or Cross Sands were destroyed by the pounding seas. A great deal of wreckage accordingly came ashore on the Norfolk coast. Newspaper reports did comment upon Hippogriff (built at Sunderland in 1832), lost off Yarmouth at the very same time. But all that such reports say re Ancona was that a part of a medicine chest marked Ancona came ashore on the coast (brief ref. at the bottom here). I can also tell you that 'Benningworth', also reported as 'Bennyworth', was Ancona's mate at the time of her loss & that he left behind three children (& most probably a widow also).   Chris Roche, in touch via the guestbook in May 2016, tells us that he has been researching the history of Ancona for many years & that the brig was lost off the coast of Norfolk (as is now confirmed above). Hopefully, further info will become available in the future. Is there anything you can add? Or correct? #2676 THE NORTH EASTERN MARINE ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED First a few images. Hover your mouse over each thumbnail to read the subject matter.   Just to record that a c.1910 book, of 76 illustrated pages, was sold via eBay on Jul. 19, 2011 - about the company which had workshops in both Wallsend-on-Tyne & Sunderland. Specializing, in 'installations of boilers, pumps and other marine engineered items'. It would be good to be able, someday, to show every page of the book within these pages. The company was later renamed 'The North Eastern Marine Engineering Company (1938) Limited', it would seem. And rather later, in the late 1950s, the company was known as 'Geo. Clark and North Eastern Marine Co. Ltd.' In late Nov. 2012, a colour lithograph was offered for sale on eBay by eBay vendor 'oldcasion'. A lithograph of very great beauty - a plan and coloured diagram of a compound surface condensing engine constructed by 'The North Eastern Marine Engineering Company Ltd.' from the patent designs of Mr. William Allen, Managing Engineer. Published, it is believed, folded, as a supplement to 'The Engineer' of Jun. 09, 1871. The engines were for installation in steamships Singapore, Canton & Hong Kong, none of which ships were built at Sunderland. The lithograph was large - 75 x 47 cm. or approx. 29 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches. in size. We offer next a composite of the eBay listing images. Hopefully it will be possible, some day, to provide for your interest & enjoyment, a good large scan of the lithograph. A brass engine plate, 18 x 7 inches in size, re a 'North Eastern Doxford' Patented Opposed Piston Oil Engine built by 'The North Eastern Marine Eng Co. Limited' at Wallsend rather than at Sunderland. A beautiful plate indeed. Which sold on Jan. 5, 2020 for U.S. $162.63. NORTH EAST SHIPBUILDERS LTD. First a few images. Hover your mouse over each thumbnail to read the subject matter. The company which was the result of the 1986 merger of Austin & Pickersgill Ltd. & Sunderland Shipbuilders Limited. Accurate data is needed! Tony Frost advises (thanks!) that 7 ships were built at their Southwick facility, specifically Hull #'s 3002 (Superflex Bravo), 3004 (Superflex Delta), 3006 (Superflex Foxtrot), 3008 (Superflex Hotel), 3010 (Mercandia VI), 3012 (Mercandia II) & 3014 (Mercandia IV). With names as indicated. And many more at their Pallion facility. The vessels built at Pallion were:- Hull #s 1024 (Stena Seawell), 1025 (Stena Wellservicer), Hull 3001 (Superflex Alfa), 3003 (Superflex Charlie), 3005 (Superflex Echo), 3007 (Superflex Golf), 3009 (Mercandia V, launched as Superflex India), 3011 (Mercandia I, launched as Superflex Kilo), 3013 (Mercandia III, launched as Superflex Mike) It used to be that you could click on the link that follows & get to the relevant Miramar page. But no longer! The new procedure must be to go here & log in (you must be registered to view any page). And once you are logged in, return to this page & the following link should work for you:- here. In a guestbook message here 'Southern mackem' advises that the company also built 'a relatively small linkspan'. Such construction clearly related to their building of ferries - since a 'linkspan' is, I learn, the term used for the means by which vehicles drive onto and off a ferry ship - essentially a hinged bridge designed to accommodate changing tides etc. There are a number of quite different types of 'linkspan' all with the same basic purposes. The 'linkspan' that they built was presumably for use by one of the many ferries that they constructed. This one would seem to have been built for service at Dover Harbour. Names of vessels constructed by 'North East Shipbuilders Ltd.' As I find them. In a table in build date sequence. 1 Superflex Foxtrot 4296 (became 3042) tons Hull 3006 8611647 Pantokrator 1988 A passenger & vehicle ferry, initially double-ended, but later rebuilt as a conventional ferry. Per 1 (data page in Swedish, with 10 images), 2 (images galore, Pantokrator), 3 (18 images, Pantokrator, by Stefano Guarino), 4 (data & images, Pantokrator), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 95.81 metres long, speed of 12 1/2 (or 14) knots, signal letters OZCF later SYOZ & PMSI. Built for 'V R Shipping ApS', (now 'VR Nyborg-Korso ApS'), of Korsør, Denmark, to provide ferry service between Helsingør, Denmark, & Helsingborg, Sweden. But, if I understand 1 correctly, it never served under the Danish flag & was used for spare parts. Can that possibly be so? The vessel was sold twice, in 1994, it would seem - firstly, in Jun. 1994, to Melalohari Hellenic Tugboats, of Piraeus, Greece, & later that year to 'Aghios Spyridon Shipping Co. Ltd.' ('Spyridon'), also of Piraeus, & renamed Pantokrator. Presumably named for Mount Pantokrator (the word means 'almighty') the highest mountain on Corfu at 906 metres. For operation by 'Feax Express Lines'. The rebuilt ferry commenced ferry service from Igoumenitsa, on the W. coast of mainland Greece, to the Island of Corfu, also Greece. Is 'Feax' the operating name of Spyridon? The vessel was towed from Copenhagen, Denmark, to the 'Kynossoura Dock Yard Ltd.' yards at Salamis, Greece, & rebuilt in the late94/Aug.96 period, a rebuild that took 20 months & cost about 5,000,000 euros. It became a conventional ferry (single ended), 109.2 metres long & 3,042 gross tons. The passenger capacity was increased, it would seem, from 303 to 1,000. No change in auto capacity - 170 cars before & after the rebuild. The engines were changed from Cummins to Alpha or MAN (can anyone provide the detail in English), & its service speed became 18 knots. A number of sites refer to 'lanemetres' with a value of 290. Can anyone explain what that means? 290 metres of lane length would surely not seem to be sufficient for 170 cars. The appearance of the vessel was changed dramatically. Now images as Superflex Foxtrot seem to be most scarce - it would be good, in a single image & in quality, to show the vessel both before & after the conversion. Can you provide a good image of Superflex Foxtrot for that purpose? Was dry docked at Perama, Pireaus, in Mar. 2006. The vessel was still on the Corfu run until early 2013 when it was sold (date of sale?) to 'Panca Merak Luas Samudera', of Surabaja, Indonesia. It would seem that the vessel name was not changed. What is its status now, I wonder? Now most WWW pages are in Greek or Swedish & WWW translation of those pages into English is most difficult. Can you provide more info and/or correct the data above? NORTH OF ENGLAND SHIPBUILDING COMPANY (1882/1886) OF PALLION, SUNDERLAND Just a name at this moment. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. All I have seen is that the yard was at Pallion. A vessel list? (just 12 vessels it would seem, the first vessel being numbered #100). It used to be that you could click on the link that follows & get to the relevant Miramar page. But no longer! The new procedure must be to go to Miramar (here) & log in (you must be registered to view any page). And once you are logged in, return to this page & the following link should work for you:- 111 (12). 1   Wells City 1958 tons Hull 110 85819 150419 Progreso 1885 A cargo ship, rigged as a 2-masted schooner. Per 1 (1885 ref. to launch, p.132/3 & ref. to trial run on p.221), 2 (NY Times archive re 1887 sinking), 3 (Bristol City Line, Wells City #1), 4 (1902 explosion), 5 (Michigan Steamship ref.), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 270.0 ft. long (82.3 metres) - between perpendiculars?, signal letters KFCN. Built for Charles Hill & Sons, of Bristol (Bristol City Line) & intended for their Bristol to New York service. Cost $150,000. The christening ceremony was performed by Miss Hill, daughter of the senior owner. Captain T. L. Weiss her first Captain. During her trial run on Dec. 22, 1885, the vessel ran the measured mile at 11 1/2 knots. On Feb. 10, 1887, with Captain Weiss in command, the vessel was anchored off old Pier No. 56 in the North River at New York, (Hudson River) with a cargo principally of tin plates & sheet iron. A giant ice flow unexpectedly appeared & hit the vessel causing her to drag her anchor. The vessel could not be controlled & she crashed heavily into Lone Star, which was modestly damaged. Wells City suffered a big gash in her side, & sank stern first opposite the Hoboken ferry at Christopher Street. A total loss & fully insured. Nobody was considered to be at fault. Bristol City Line abandoned the vessel, which was salvaged & presumably repaired, for later in 1887, it became owned by New York & Yucatan Steamship Company, of New York, & renamed Progreso. In 1902, the vessel was owned by Michigan Steamship Company. On Dec. 03, 1902, when the vessel was lying at the wharf of the Fulton Iron Works at Harbor View, San Francisco, in process of being converted from coal to oil burning, one of the oil tanks blew up, & the ship sagged in the centre ('she had broken in two'). The resulting fire burned for many hours. 12 men were initially missing & 'a score were more or less seriously injured'. The total damage was valued at $200,000 including the vessel at $175,000. The vessel was broken up. Can you add anything? 2   Beatrix 1290 tons Hull 111 91358 1886 An iron barque. Per 1 (1869 ref. to Beynon), 2 (Beynon, p.184/7, 90% down), 3 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 231.0 ft. long (70.41 metres) - between perpendiculars?, signal letters KFPT. Likely used to carry coal. Built for T. Beynon & Company, of Newport, Wales. There are a few WWW ref. to Thomas Beynon, who described himself in 1876 as 'a shipowner and coal merchant'. In early 1870 at least, he was the Mayor of Newport. Anyway, it would appear that Beatrix was the very last ship built by the shipbuilder. Miramar advises that Beatrix came to its end in the 1890s, on fire on Sep. 19, 1893. At  46.16S/77.19W, which is off the coast of southern Chile. Have not read the circumstances anywhere, indeed WWW data about the vessel is essentially non-existent. Can you add more? OLIVER. F. Just a name at this moment. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. A Sunderland build list available to the webmaster lists F. Oliver as building 10 vessels from 1836 thru 1844. 1   Radiant 211/201 later 285/263 tons 24142 1844 The records for this vessel, a snow, later a barque, a brig, & a barque, are as confusing as I have come across. Launched in Apl. 1844, Radiant is Lloyd's Register ('LR') listed from 1844/45 thru 1864/65 & not thereafter. The first 'confusion' is Radiant's year of build. I believe that 1844 is correct in part since such date is recorded in two Sunderland build lists available to the webmaster. But LR records the vessel as built in 1843 (from 1844/45 thru 1847/48) & thereafter (thru 1864/65) as built in 1842. And an 1849 Lloyd's Survey document re the vessel records her as being an 1842 vessel. The 2nd 'confusion' is its tonnage - LR lists the vessel at 211/201 tons from 1844/45 thru 1853/54, except for 1848/49 in which it is recorded at 263 tons. For all later years, from 1854/55 thru 1864/65, LR lists 285/263 tons. Radiant's ownership history is also most confusing. The vessel was initially, in 1844/45 per LR, owned by Oliver & Co. of Sunderland, i.e. by its builder, with 'Peverly' its captain. Later in that same year the vessel became owned by Clark & Co. (later Clarke & Co.) of Shoreham, Sussex, with S. Clark, later S. Clarke, the vessel's captain, for service from Sunderland to the Baltic thru 1847/48. LR of 1849/50 lists Clarke & Co. of Shoreham as the vessel's owner & S. Clarke her captain for service as a Milford, Wales, coaster. But ... LR of one of the intervening years, i.e. the 1848/49 edition of LR, the two Clarke names, as owner & captain were deleted & not replaced, & service from Newport, Wales, to the U.S. is indicated. It would seem that LR should have reported 'Batchelor' as the vessel's then owner. On Jun. 13, 1849, Radiant, 'Thomas' in command, arrived at Boston, U.S.A., ex Newport, Wales, with just half of its cargo of railroad iron. The vessel had experienced severe weather en route, suffered significant damage to hull & sails, & had to jettison much of her cargo. It may be that the Survey document linked above, entitled 'Restoration', relates to this experience. From 1850/51 thru 1853/54, 'Batchelor', of Cardiff, is LR listed as Radiant's owner for service from Newport to the U.S., with 'Thomas' (James Thomas, I learn) serving as the vessel's captain. I learn also that 'Batchelor' means T. B. Batchelor, a timber merchant & in 1849/50 the mayor of Newport. On Oct. 25, 1849, the barque Radiant, then owned by Batchelor, was en route to Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.A., when it came across Jane, a 350 ton brig, derelict in the N. Atlantic Ocean, 188 miles from Cape Clear (an island off the SW tip of Ireland). 'Thomas', Radiant's captain, put crew aboard Jane & they brought the vessel safely to Cork, Ireland. The Admiralty Court in Dublin, Ireland, later awarded the total sum of £1,200 to Radiant's owner, captain & crew for their actions. As per these reports (1, 2 & 3). In 1854/55 & 1855/56, LR lists J. Longton of Liverpool as Radiant's owner, with J. Mason her captain, for service from Liverpool i) to the West Indies in 1854/55 & ii) to V. Crux, presumably Vera Cruz (Veracruz, Mexico), in 1855/56. Radiant was registered at Liverpool on Mar. 14 or 16, 1854 (scroll to #24142). Marwood's North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, in Mar. 1854 data, confirms such registration. It lists John Longton of Liverpool as the vessel's then owner with John Mason her then captain. From Jul. 02, thru Jul. 11, 1855 Radiant, then lying at Prince's Dock, Liverpool, was advertised for private sale. It was then offered for sale at a public auction held at Liverpool on Jul. 27, 1855. It presumably did not sell at such auction because it was again offered for private sale thru Aug. 16, 1855. One of the many advertisements LRs of 1856/57 thru 1859/60 list R. J. Brown, of Sunderland as the vessel's owner for service ex Liverpool, with no captain name referenced. Turnbull's Shipping Register of 1856 confirms such data. Christie's Shipping Register of 1858 has Radiant still Sunderland registered but introduces a new owner name - John Fleming of London. In 1860/61 & in part of 1861/62, per LR, Hutchinson of Sunderland is stated to have owned the vessel, for service as a Sunderland coaster, with 'Johnston' serving as her captain. Later in 1861/62 & thru 1863/64 perhaps, Bryden & Co. of Blyth is LR listed as the vessel's owner - the vessel was registered at Shields. With W. Hedley thru 1864/65 & then 'Foster' serving as the vessel's captain. At this point in time, LR's listing of Radiant came to an end. Fortunately the Mercantile Navy List ('MNL') comes to our rescue. MNLs of 1865 thru 1871 list A. R. Guthrie, of Cowper Quay, Blyth, as owner of the Shields registered 245 ton vessel. MNL of 1872 lists Robt. Tynemouth, of Waterloo, near Blyth, as the vessel's then owner. MNL of 1873 is not available. In 1874, per MNL, the vessel was again owned by A. R. Guthrie. 102 ft. long, signal letters NVMJ. Many crew lists, thru 1873, are available via this link. The webmaster has not, so far at least, seen any references to what happened to Radiant, likely in late 1873 or in 1874. Can anybody tell us what did happen to her? In searching, the webmaster did come across a Wikipedia reference (thanks!) to reports which stated that on Feb. 25, 1860, Radiant, a British brig, was driven ashore at Hadston, Northumberland, while en route from Dieppe, France, to Warkworth, Northumberland. She was re-floated on Mar. 08, 1860 & taken in to Warkworth. Lloyd's List, however, tells us that such Radiant was registered at Warkworth & that Bevis, correctly W. Beavis (who filed a deposition re the matter), was her then captain. Anything you can add? #2934 OSBOURNE, GRAHAM & CO. OSBOURNE, GRAHAM & CO. LTD. OF NORTH HYLTON, SUNDERLAND First a few images. Hover your mouse over each thumbnail to read the subject matter. Just a name at this moment. Any help you might provide re this shipbuilder would be much appreciated. All I have seen is that the yard was at North Hylton. A now long gone website used to advise that 'Osborne Graham opened in 1871. They were the last firm left building ships at Hylton and survived until 1925. There was an Edwin Graham building in 1873 but unsure that he was connected with the later company.' That page names 4 specific vessels built by the yard in 1892, not already listed below (Gerto, Miramar, Hindustan & Aureola) and lists the yard shipbuilding tonnage in the years of 1883 through 1892. Hindustan is, in fact, now covered on site here. I have read that the yard built sailing vessels, steam coasters & colliers. Was idle for many months in 1885. And suffered industrial action in 1911. Alan Johnston has reminded me that data about the yard is available at Grace's Guide here. Which data includes the fact that in 1931 the yard was purchased by National Shipbuilders Security. And was demolished. Miramar lists - 8 pages, (highest hull number on page). It used to be that you could click on the links that follow & get to the relevant Miramar page. But no longer! The new procedure must be to go to Miramar (here) & log in (you must be registered to view any page). And once you are logged in, return to this page & all the following links should work for you:- 31, 62, 96, 129, 163, 198, 263, 264. (264) Names of vessels constructed by 'Osbourne, Graham'. As I find them. In a table in build date sequence. 1 Lancelot 870 tons Hull 8 69292 Wye 1873 A cargo ship which became a Navy stores ship. Per 1 (page bottom, Wye), 2 (a modest image at Ascension Island, in the period 1905/1908), 3 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 222.0 ft. long, speed of 10.4 knots. The vessel was launched as Montreal. Built for A. McMillan & Sons, of Liverpool, as Lancelot. But the Admiralty bought it in Dec. 1873 when it was completed & renamed the vessel Wye. It is puzzling, however, that the vessel was recorded, as Lancelot, in Lloyd's Registers of 1874/75 & 1876/77. Commissioned at Chatham on Apl. 15, 1875. The vessel served in the Mediterranean in 1879. On Nov. 20, 1879, the vessel was commissioned again (status changed perhaps?) at Sheerness. Served in the Mediterranean in 1886 (Brindisi, Suda Bay (Crete), Malta). A long gone website used to detail a 1900 voyage to W. coast of Africa; & stated that the Navy disposed of the ship in 1904. But that data clearly is incorrect, thanks to Richard Lewis. Who provides the 2nd image at left, which demonstrates that the vessel was paid off, at Sheerness, on Sep. 12, 1905. On Apl. 3, 1906, the vessel was sold to Adrienne Merville, of Dunkirk, France, to be broken up (1906 data from an expired eBay item, which data seems to make sense in view of Richard's 1905 data). But ... the modest image at 3 is from an album by Captain R. H. Morgan, who was, I am advised, the Royal Marine Commandant of Ascension Island in 1905-1908. Image perhaps dates from 1907, a date that seems to be suspect. Not a lot of data, all said & done. Richard adds that in the 1899-1901 period, when Richard's grandfather served aboard the vessel, the ship made several voyages calling at such ports as Portsmouth, Plymouth, Madeira, Las Palmas, Sierra Leone, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro & Ascension Island. Miramar indicates (thanks!) that the vessel was broken up at Dunkirk. Can you provide more? 2 Alexandra 797 (or 590) tons Hull 15 70227 1874 An iron cargo steamship. Per 1 (1882 reference to the missing ship), 2 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 196.2 ft. (59.79 metres) long, single screw, intended for service in the Baltic, it would seem. The webmaster has a few editions of 'Lloyd's Register' available to him ex Google books (see left). The vessel was built for 'English & Scandinavian Steamship Co.', of Newcastle. At a date between the 1876/77 & 1878/79 editions of Lloyd's Register, the owner would seem to have become L. Berger, also of Newcastle. In that later edition however, the vessel was owned by, I believe, 'South Swedish Steam Ship Co.', of Malmö, Sweden. In Oct. 1881, the vessel left Newcastle for Malmö with a cargo of coal, & a crew of 32 all told. The vessel went missing & was never seen again. Miramar dates the departure from Newcastle as being on Oct. 13, 1881, but 2 refers rather to Oct. 24, 1881, perhaps the date of loss? Can you provide anything additional? No.1766 3 First Lancashire 1405 (or 1345 or 1370) tons Hull 19 74480 Endymion 1875 A 3-masted iron fully rigged ship. Per 1 (extensive data in Finnish, images), 2, 3 & 4 (data, First Lancashire), 5 (sinking data & image, Endymion), 6 (sinking, Endymion), 7 & 8 (images, Endymion), 9 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 232.6 ft. long, 70.9 metres perpendicular to perpendicular, carrying royals over single topgallant sails & double topsails, signal letters PJCF later TFRQ. 'Where Ships Are Born' refers to the fame of her shipbuilder being established by the sailing qualities of this vessel & also of Woollahra, Gwrtheyrn Castle, Celestial Empire & others. The webmaster has a few editions of 'Lloyd's Register' available to him ex Google books & 'archive.org', - see left. The vessel was built for 'William H. (Humphrey) Owen, of Liverpool. On Dec. 18, 1880, the vessel was en route from Cardiff, Wales, to Rangoon. I read that in 1891 the vessel was sold to Richardson Brothers, of Swansea, Wales. Certainly, in the 1894/95 edition of Lloyd's Register, 'J. C. & G. S. Richardson', of Swansea, were the registered owners. In 1896, the vessel was sold, for £4,750, to G. A. Lindblom & A. (Alvar) Söderland, of Åbo/Turku, Finland, & renamed Endymion. G. A. Lindblom became the manager. The vessel was a frequent visitor to Australia in the next 19 years - some of the many references at 'Trove' follow. (1 refers to some other voyages). On or about Feb. 17, 1897, the vessel left Hamburg, Germany, for Adelaide, South Australia, where it arrived on Jun. 16, 1897. It later left for Newcastle, New South Wales ('NSW'), & on Aug. 11, 1897 left for San Francisco with a cargo of 1,982 tons of coal. Many references at Trove to the ship being Russian (it would seem to have flown the Russian flag), & many references, incorrect I think, to the vessel being a barque. On Aug. 23, 1898, the vessel, arriving from Sundervaal, (means Sundsvall, Sweden, I think), in the Baltic, left for Adelaide with a cargo of timber. The vessel's captain, Captain Swanston (would seem to correctly mean August Konstantin Svahnström) had to be landed, due to illness, at Weymouth, & Karl L. V. Lindberg would seem to have taken command. The vessel went to Sydney, NSW, & then to Geelong, near Melbourne to take on board a cargo of wheat (left Mar. 20, 1898) for London (arrived Mar. 20, 1899) via Guam. In Feb. 1900, the vessel was back at Adelaide ex Sundervaal. It left for Lyttelton, New Zealand ('NZ'), in ballast, there to load grain & wool for the U.K. In May 1901, the vessel took on coal at Newcastle, NSW, for Pecasmayo, Peru. In 1900, the vessel was sold, (Miramar does not reference the sale), to Robert Emanuel Mattson, or maybe 'Mattson Rederi A/B', of Mariehamn, have also read Vårdö, Finland, without change of vessel name. 'Mattson' may rather be 'Mattsson'. On Jun. 21, 1904, when off Albany, Western Australia, the vessel, en route from Christiania, Norway, lost two lower topsails in gale conditions. And on Sep. 21, 1904, the vessel left Port Pirie with a cargo that included 412 tons of silver ore bound for St. Nazaire, France. She lost much of her rigging off Cape Borda, returned to Adelaide for necessary repairs, & left again on Oct. 07, 1904. On Feb. 01, 1906 the vessel arrived at Adelaide from Buenos Aires in ballast for orders after a voyage of 48 days - & left for Falmouth with 18,001 bags of wheat. When loading copra at Mia Papa, Tonga, the vessel was driven ashore on May 6, 1906, was floated off by kedges after 2 hours, towed by Manapouri to Nuku'alofa, Tonga, suffering no apparent damage, but went to Auckland, NZ, for survey before proceeding to Falmouth. On Jan. 14, 1909, the vessel arrived at Sydney via London from Sundswall (Sundsvall, Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden), with 2 million feet of timber. And left for the Channel with 23,594 bags of wheat. On Feb. 24, 1911, (I think this is what links 1 says, the vessel rescued 8 members of the crew of Stawbridgen, a 4-masted schooner (not Miramar listed) & landed them at Bermuda. The vessel was back again at Adelaide in Aug. 1912, from Rio de Janeiro & left for Callao, Peru, from Newcastle, likely with coal. In late Nov. 1915, the vessel arrived at Port Adelaide with a cargo of Canadian deal (timber) ex Dalhousie, New Brunswick. And left for Astoria (Oregon?) in ballast. On Apl. 04, 1917, the vessel left Liverpool, in ballast, apparently  en route to Mobile, (Alabama?). On Apl. 16, 1917, the vessel, was sunk by gunfire from U-43, Korvettenkapitän Hellmuth Jürst in command, approx. 250 miles off Galway, Ireland. At 52.30N/16.20W. There was no loss of life, though I cannot tell you how the crew reached land. The circumstances? 5 states that the vessel was renamed Virgo. But I think that the Endymion which was renamed Virgo was not 'our' ship & rather was Endymion built in 1870 at Glasgow. Can you provide anything additional? No.1884 4 Woollahra 974 tons Hull 16 73314 1875 An iron barque. Per 1 (wreck summary), 2 (extensive, Jul. 17, 1907, wreck report, cols. 3/5), 3 & 4 (re Court of Enquiry), 5 (data, Woollahra), 6 (ex 'The Colonial Clippers' by Basil Lubbock), 7 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 202 ft. 4 in. long, 61.7 metres perpendicular to perpendicular, signal letters WNKF. The webmaster has a few editions of Lloyd's Registers available ex Google books, thru 1889/90 - see left. Woollahra? An eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales ('NSW'), Australia. Built for Cowlishaw Bros., of Sydney. The vessel 'had a very fair turn of speed'. In her later years, she carried coal from Newcastle, NSW, to San Francisco. The vessel would seem to have been later sold. In that regard, I read that a postcard image of the ship exists at Launceston Library, Tasmania, along with an article 'the barque Woollahra sold'. That image may well however be the image now visible at left. In 1907, the vessel is said to have been owned by 'Woollahra Ship Company', of Sydney. In early Jul. 1907, the vessel was at Wellington, New Zealand ('NZ'), delivering a cargo of coal ex Newcastle. Just before midnight on Jul. 14, 1907, while en route, in ballast, from Wellington, to Kaipara (NW of N. Island, NZ), to load kauri lumber for Sydney, the vessel ran aground on ragged rocks 200/250 yards from shore, at Tongue Point, 4 miles SE of Cape Terawhiti (the southwesternmost point of the N. Island), in the Cook Strait. During a rainstorm with heavy seas running. Orders were given to get the lifeboat out, but the forward davit gave away & the lifeboat disappeared, (or alternatively, at 1:30 a.m. on Jul. 15, 1907, the mizzen mast carried away, resulting in the destruction of the lifeboat). At about 5:00 a.m. (or maybe at 4:00 a.m.), with seas breaking over the heavily listing vessel, most of the crew took to a dinghy, which then was destroyed 60/70 yards off shore. Some crew members made it safely to shore carrying ropes & with those ropes all aboard made it to shore, wading thru shallow water. The Captain, Albert M. (Molkin) Andreson, determined to stay aboard the wreck & paid for that decision with his life. Two other crewmen stayed aboard also, and/or maybe missed the departure of the dinghy - McNaughton & William Konig (who could not swim), both able seaman. They jumped into the sea & tried to make it to safety - but only Konig made it to shore. So 2 lives were lost. The vessel? It broke its back, was totally destroyed in the pounding seas, became 'matchwood', & ended up in small pieces all over the beach. The ship could not however have all become matchwood since the wreck is today described as 'one of Wellington's more complete wrecks about 30m offshore in a small bay, inshore of the Karori Rock light'. Duco, a tug from Wellington, just 16 km. distant, arrived on the scene on the afternoon of Jul. 15, 1907, but there was nothing left to which they could offer assistance. The Court of Enquiry, held Jul. 19/20, 1907, found that 'the cause of the casualty was an error of judgement on the part of the master as to the position of the ship when the wind shifted ...'. Can you provide more data? Another image? That 'sale' article? 5 Gwrtheyrn Castle 778/803 (N/G) tons (or 778/786/798 tons) Hull 20 70315 Ira Gwrtheyrn Castle Castle 1876 A 'three-masted iron barque carrying royals over single topgallant sails'. Per 1 (data, 'Bruzelius'), 2 (1880 bad weather), 3 (William Davies, Gwrtheyrn Castle's captain 1894/1914), 4 (image as Ira), 5 (1922 image as Ira, page in Finnish), 6 (1922 sale), 7 (a 1902 voyage), 8 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). Alas, most of my earlier links are long gone! Do not miss seeing, in a large size, the glorious painting of Gwrtheyrn Castle via the 1st image at left. 191.7 ft. long, signal letters PJRN later VMKN. Built for Robert Rees ('Rees'), of Caernarvon (or Nevin or Nefyn), Wales. In 1881, the vessel was sold to R. Thomas & Co. of Nevin (later of Criccieth, Wales & Liverpool). (However 'Mystic Seaport's 'Record of American and Foreign Shipping' lists the vessel as being owned by Rees until 1900 in which year R. Thomas is named.) In 1905 or 1906 it was sold again, to Antonio Gotusso, of Portofino, Genoa, for £2,025. A now vanished Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, website used to provide lots of detail of the vessel's voyages 'in the intervening years' including twice round the Horn. In Apl. 1913, the vessel was sold to 'Jakobstads Rederi Ab', of Jakobstad, Finland (K. Strom the manager) & renamed Ira. In Oct. 1914, the vessel was laid up in Jakobstad, & 'sold during the war' to 'Oy Tonnage Ab', of Raumo, Finland. The next data conflicts. a) In 1922 the vessel was sold to Scott, Fell & Co. of Sydney, New South Wales ('NSW'), on behalf of the Southern Coal Owners' Agency, who renamed her Gwrtheyrn Castle. Or b) in 1923, the vessel was acquired by Interstate Steamship Company ('Interstate') established in 1920 by William Scott Fell ('Fell'), of Sydney. Ownership by Interstate is not recorded in the 1924 Lloyd's Annual Ship Register. Fell became part owner & Chairman of Gretamain Colliery Limited in Newcastle, NSW, in 1923. In 1923, the vessel was rebuilt for use as a coal hulk in Sydney, & was still a hulk there in 1929. Became Castle, I am advised (by Mori Flapan), before 1933. A wee bit of routing data. Hopefully more in the future. i) In late Apl. 1878, the vessel was unloading, at Truro, Cornwall, guano ex Pabellon-de-Pica, Peru. ii) On Nov. 22, 1880, the vessel left Cardiff, Wales, for Buenos Ayres, Argentina, with a cargo of coal. iii) On Feb. 03, 1882, the vessel left Liverpool for Valparaiso, Chile. iv) On Feb. 07, 1898, the vessel arrived at Rio de Janeiro ex Rangoon, Davies in command, with a cargo of rice. Can you provide more info? Or correct the above. 6 Celestial Empire 1832 (or 1757 or 1758) tons Hull 27 77006 1877 An iron 3-masted fully rigged ship. Per 1 (modest image), 2 (1882 arrival at Sydney, Australia), 3 (data 40% down), 4 (data re Krakatoa eruption), 5 (Empire Line), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 267.2 ft. long (81.4 metres) - perpendicular to perpendicular per Miramar), 3 sky-sails, signal letters RBGM. Built for G. Duncan & Co., of London, (Empire Line), & registered at London. J. (John) Duncan was her Captain for an amazing number of years - from 1877 to 1907. An article in 'Sea Breezes' (not sure which issue) would seem to have referred to Captain Duncan's death. Then (in 1907) 'G. Rochester' became her Captain. It would seem that on Jan. 15, 1907, while en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Wallaroo, South Ausralia, in ballast, the captain of Celestial Empire died & was buried at sea - but that captain proved to be Captain Cantley, whose wife was likely aboard & at his side. There are a great many newspaper articles referring to the vessel at Trove, Australia, often carrying coal or wheat. Including a few articles re major storms that the vessel encountered at sea (1891 & 1904). The vessel was broken up in Q2 of 1911. Can you add anything and/or correct the above? 7 Gwynedd 1081 (or 1053 or 1101) tons Hull 25 74873 Inga 1877 A 3-masted iron barque. Per 1 (data), 2 (New Zealand article, Inga, at bottom), 3 (Great Storm of 1901 & Inga wreck account), 4 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). Their used to be data re 'The Great Storm of 1901' & Inga at the website of 'Local History Initiative' - but that website is no more. One of their pages was a Word document re Inga, a page that survives as the first item at 1 & here also. 204.6 ft. long (62.36 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, signal letters QMWS (apparently later JDNB). Built for North Wales Shipping Co. Ltd., of Carnarvon (now Caernarfon), Wales. The webmaster has a few editions of Lloyd's Registers available ex Google books, thru 1890/91 - see left. In the 1887/88 edition, the owner became 'Gwynedd Shipping Co. Ltd.', of Nevin, (now Nefyn perhaps), North Wales, with W. Thomas & Sons, the managers. I read that the vessel was sold to Robert Thomas of Criccieth, Cardigan Bay, Wales. In 1899, the vessel was sold to 'Acties Inga', T. B. Heistein the manager & likely the owner also, though Miramar state T. (Thv.) B. Olsen, of Kristiansand, Norway, & renamed Inga. In late 1901, the vessel was en route from Port Wakefield, near Adelaide, South Australia, via Falmouth, to the Tyne, with a cargo of grain. The Captain was T. A. Olsen, with a crew of 16 & also 2 boys, both relatives of the ship's owner. At 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 13, 1901, the vessel was within a mile N. of safe harbour at the River Tyne, when the ship was blown by high winds onto the rocks at the N. end of Long Sands, Cullercoats, North Tyneside. A casualty of 'The Great Storm' of Nov. 12/15, 1901 which hammered many parts of U.K. but particularly sank 46 ships between the Tweed & the Tees with the loss of 200 lives. With Force 11 winds, almost a hurricane. The vessel heeled over & all aboard were thrown into the raging sea. The sea was just too rough to even launch the Cullercoat lifeboat. Attempts was made, however, by the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade, to effect a rescue with shore-based rocket apparatus but they were not successful. Just one crew member, Andreas Birkeland, (or maybe Andres Barklund), survived. He was washed ashore wearing a lifebelt. The wreck has, I read, been identified, lying 400 yards offshore, in about 6 metres of water. I learn that a parcel from the ship was found on the beach by one Robert Hudson. It contained two photographs, one of the Inga herself & one of the crew on the deck (both images are at left). Hudson gave them to the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade, who retain them in their archives to this very day. Can you add anything or correct the above? 8 Alexa 441 (or 425) tons Hull 30 79606 1878 An iron barquentine, later a brig perhaps. Per 1 (ref. 70% down 'April 24 1880'), 2 (1901 wreck report), 3 (Alexa Wreck Inquiry, ex 4), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access).  144.3 ft. long (43.98 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, signal letters RSBW. The webmaster has a few editions of Lloyd's Registers available ex Google books, thru 1889/90 - see left. Built for G. Turnbull & Co., of Wellington, New Zealand ('NZ'). There are a few references to vessels named Alexa, including a brief reference to an Apl. 1880 arrival (1) at Port Chalmers, NZ. In the 1887/88 edition of Lloyd's Register, the vessel, then owned by D. H. McKenzie, of Auckland, NZ, is recorded as sold to C. A. Harris Jr. ('Harris'), also of Auckland. And in the 1889/90 edition, Harris has sold the vessel again, to W. S. Waterson, correctly Waterston, of Invercargill, NZ. In expired eBay items, I have read that in 1895, or maybe in 1900, the vessel was re-rigged as a brig. However I can spot no references to Alexa being a brig. I would however need access to Lloyd's Registers to better know what the facts are. On Dec. 26, 1898, Alexa, described as a barque, collided with the Pyrmont swing bridge while going up to Darling Harbor, Sydney, & carried away some of her head gear. The vessel was described as being a 'Pacific Trader' - in the China/Singapore/NZ trade. On Jul. 07, 1901, the barque, chartered to load phosphates, in ballast, & under the command of W. (William) Woebling, hit hurricane conditions & was driven on to a reef at Surprise Island, in the Chesterfield Group (New Caledonia in the South Pacific, between Fiji & the E. coast of Australia). The crew of ten took to the only usable boat & with difficulty effected a landing, while the vessel itself broke up. Some of the crew made it to Caledonia in that Alexa boat, while others found a boat that had drifted ashore from another vessel (Vincennes, a barque) & used it in an attempt to make it to Noumea. After seven days at sea, they were rescued by St. Pierre, a steamer sent to search for them. The mate returned, however, to the wreck to protect the owner's interests. So no lives were lost, it would appear. The Court of Inquiry determined, only on the evidence provided, that the captain had exercised due care in the navigation of Alexa & had been misled by the incorrect reference on the charts as to the speed of the currents in the area. They noted however that their decision was based upon the captain's evidence & that the 1st mate was not present at the Inquiry, to give his evidence. Can you add anything and/or correct the above? 9 City of Rochester 1432 (or 1335) tons Hull 32 68995 1879 A cargo ship. Per 1 (1881 ref.), 2 ('wrecksite.eu', 1909 collision & loss), 3 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 240.0 ft. long (73.15 metres), signal letters SJCN. Built for William A. Watson & Co., soon W. A. Watson, of Sunderland. I read that new boilers were fitted in 1891. Colin Walker advises (thanks) that in Apl. 1897, his grandfather Henry Walker, of Wear Street, Sunderland, was found dead in the ship's hold, covered with coal, when it docked at Rochester, Kent, after arriving from Sunderland. Found with a whisky flask in his hands. A family tragedy at the time, no doubt. But a story not devoid of humour, read 112 years later! There is, however, rather more to the story. On Sep. 22, 1909, while en route from Hamburg, Germany, to Seaham Harbour (now Seaham, 6 miles S. of Sunderland), the vessel was in collision, in the vicinity of the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, with Direktor Reppenhagen, built in 1893. The City of Rochester sank as a result of the collision. One crewman was lost - Stewart Robson. The survivors were landed, (by Direktor Reppenhagen perhaps?), at South Shields. WWW data about the ship is most limited. Can you provide more info? 10 Eivion 1167 (or 1133) tons Hull 33 80229 1879 A 3-masted iron barque. Per 1 (William Thomas & Co., but page does not refer to Eivion), 2 (image), 3 (Lonsdale, Sea Gallantry awards), 4 (Spanish page, fire, Lonsdale), 5 (transcription of the Report of the Naval Court at Valparaiso), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 211.1 ft. long (64.3 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, signal letters SNPR. Built for North Wales Ship Co. Ltd., of Caernarfon (Carnarvon), Wales. In 1887, the vessel was sold to William Thomas & Co., of Liverpool & Anglesey. And a company "Ship "Eivion" Company Ltd.' was formed, presumably to own it. In 1894, the vessel was sold to Robert Thomas (R. Thomas & Co.) of Criccieth, Wales. On Jun. 14, 1904, the vessel left Garston, Liverpool, for Tocopilla (in northern Chile) with a cargo of steam coal, with Robert Thomas in command & a crew of 19 all told. On Sep. 10, 1904, during heavy weather, the lifeboat & gig was washed away. On Sep. 30, 1904, smoke was noticed forward, & three hatches were battened down including the ventilators, presumably hoping to starve the fire. It did not work. At midnight on Oct. 01, 1904, the vessel's fore-hatches were blown off & overboard &, at 6:15 a.m. on Oct. 02, 1904, the after-hatches were also blown off. The only remaining boat was stave in at 3 p.m. that day as the ship rolled in the heavy weather. Fortunately Lonsdale of Liverpool, a fully rigged ship of 1685 tons, came into sight & some 7 1/2 hours later came close & stood by. Explosions continued, occurring with each roll of the ship. All of this at approx. 54S/84W, near Cape Horn (S. tip of South America). At 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 03, 1904, Lonsdale launched a lifeboat under the command of first mate J. O'Connor manned by 4 brave volunteer crew members. That boat was smashed against Eivion's side by the fury of the sea, staving in the boat & filling it with water. I presume, however, that it was not totally smashed since it managed to return to Lonsdale with ten of the Eivion crew & indeed would seem to have returned a second time to rescue Captain Thomas & the remaining Eivion crew. By that time, all of Eivion's hatches were off & dense clouds of smoke were rising from each hatch. The ship was clearly sinking, the weather was further deteriorating. Lonsdale later landed the survivors at Talcahuano (coast of Central Chile). All 5 crew members of the Lonsdale lifeboat were awarded prestigious Sea Gallantry Medals for their rescue efforts. A wreck of a vessel of the same name lies at Rye, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, but it is not the wreck of this vessel. We thank author Cathy Woodhead for providing a major portion of the above data. Can you correct my text and/or provide more info? 11 Akaroa 1334 (or 1347, later 1348) tons Hull 53 82424 1881 An iron barque, which was launched in Oct. 1881. Per 1 ('wrecksite.eu', wreck data), 2 (data & modest image at link), 3 (ex this large 'doc' file in Norwegian, Akaroa at ref. #412), 4 (data), 5 (vessel at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in Mar. 1884), 6 (U-19), 7 (at page bottom, Patrick Henderson Line), 8 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 221.0 ft. long, signal letters WFKH later KBRQ. Built for 'Shaw, Savill & Co.', of London. In 1882, the vessel was transferred to 'Shaw, Savill & Albion Co. Ltd.', of Southampton, who owned it, per Lloyd's Registers, thru 1889/90. (But link 2 states originally owned by Patrick Henderson & Co. of Glasgow). 12 voyages to Australia perhaps. 3 voyages to Australia (& possibly New Zealand) & one trip to Cape Colony, South Africa, between 1899 & 1903, under the command of Captain R. A. Kelly. In 1904, the vessel was sold to Norwegian owners. 3 says to 'A/S Akaroa (Jens M. A. Marcussen, Askerøen), of Risør', Norway, while 1 says to Englehart Steam Ship Co. In 1908/09, per Lloyd's Register, the vessel was owned by 'Acties. Akaroa' (J. M. A. Marcussen), of Risor. In 1913, was registered at Askerøen? On Jan. 9, 1917, while en route from Philadelphia, U.S.A., to Rouen, France, with a cargo of machine oil & grease, the vessel was hit by 3 torpedoes (& maybe gunfire as well) fired by U-19, Kapitänleutnant Johannes Spieß in command, at 49.21N/04.25W, west of the Channel Islands. And sank. It would seem that U-19 hit the hull of Akaroa & lost its periscope. The entire Akaroa crew, in 2 lifeboats, safely reached the coast of France after 36 hours, so no loss of life accordingly. Can you provide more info? Lloyd's Register data, perhaps, to confirm the registered ownerships. 12 Cornucopia 1643 (1590.58 in 1910, or 1563) tons Hull 58 85023 Astrid Cornucopia 1882 An iron cargo ship. Per 1 (1882 launch, Cornucopia), 2 ('wrecksite.eu', Cornucopia), 3 (Wreck Inquiry, Cornucopia), 4 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 251.0 ft. long, two masted, schooner-rigged, signal letters WPMH. Christened by Mrs. Potts, wife of Captain Potts, presumably of Turnbull, Potts & Co. The webmaster has a few editions of Lloyd's Registers available thru 1890/91 - see left. The launch reference above would seem to indicate that the vessel was built for 'Argosy Steam Shipping Company Limited' ('Argosy'), with 'Turnbull, Potts & Co.' ('Turnbull'), of Sunderland, the managers. It would seem however that the initial registered owner was, in fact, Turnbull. By the 1887/88 & 1889/90 editions of Lloyd's Register, Argosy had, however, become the stated owner with Turnbull the managers. In 1895, the vessel was sold to W. M. Holby, & renamed Astrid. I have seen references to W. M. Holby being of Christiania, i.e. Oslo, Norway. Can anybody confirm that? It would seem that Metcalf Motor Coasters Ltd., of London, owned the vessel in the 1894/95 period, but a long gone site stated that they (T. Metcalf) were rather the vessel's managers. A new boiler was fitted in 1896. In 1900, the vessel was renamed Cornucopia, when re-sold, for £11,000, to her previous owners, which likely means Argosy. A reference in 'Record of American and Foreign Shipping' states that J. & P. Hutchinson were the vessel's owners in 1907. 2 states that 'Gunderson Christian & Co.', of Oslo were her final owners, however  the Inquiry report rather states that Thomas Holt Hutchison, of Glasgow, was her managing owner in 1910. The entire vessel was thoroughly overhauled in Feb. 1910, by 'Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Limited' at a cost of £2,764 7s. 6d. On Dec. 09, 1910, the vessel left Swansea for an unstated destination with a cargo of anthracite coal. Arthur M. (Macdonald) Joliffe was in command with a crew of 20 all told & no passengers. Heavy gales, mountainous seas & hurricane force winds were encountered in the Bay of Biscay, such storms, described by the captain of Rask as the heaviest he had seen in 20 years, lasting 5 or so days. Cornucopia shipped a particularly heavy sea at 1:00 a.m. on Jan. 15 - much damage to the vessel resulted including a 30 degree list to starboard, a list which became even greater as sea water continued to enter the stokehold & cargo. Unsuccessful efforts were made to re-trim the cargo which had shifted in the holds. It became quite beyond the ability of the pumps to control the water levels & of the crew to correct her list. With all of her boats stove in & with darkness approaching, they signalled a vessel that had come into sight at 4 p.m. That vessel proved to be Rask, a Norwegian steamer en route from Glasgow to Barcelona with a cargo of coal. During the next few hours, the ship's list became 40 degrees. One by one, the Cornucopia crew was taken off, with great difficulty, by two lifeboats from Rask, which had spread oil to lessen the seas. Rask left the area at about 9 p.m. on Jan. 15, & on Dec. 20, 1910 the crew were all landed at Gibraltar. All of this at about 45.50N/8.340W, in the N. Atlantic, Bay of Biscay. The abandoned vessel did not immediately sink. On Dec. 17, August Leffler, a Swedish steamer, came upon the drifting ship, & made multiple attempts to get strong lines aboard & to tow her. Twice they succeeded in getting lines aboard but both lines failed. Cornucopia surely sank, on or about Dec. 20, 1910. The court concluded that Cornucopia had not been prematurely abandoned & had been navigated with proper & seamanlike care. Can you provide more info and/or correct the above? Another image? 13 Ganges 1529 tons Hull 55 85154 Asters 1882 A 3-masted iron barque. Per 1 (Wikipedia), 2 [Ganges (2)], 3 (Norwegian data, ex 4), 5 ('uboat.net', Asters), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 241.0 ft. long, signal letters WKBN, later WLCF & WGLJ. Built for J. Nourse, of London. Essentially owned by Nourse Lines from 1882 to 1904, however C. A. Hampton & E. Bromehead, executors of the estate of James Nourse (1828/1897), took control after his death. An 1883 voyage. The vessel made three trips to Fiji, in 1885, 1899 & 1900, with indentured Indian labourers. Also travelled to Suriname in the West Indies in 1889. And to Trinidad in 1890 - maybe for a similar purpose but Wikipedia states carrying 568 'passengers'. On Feb. 19, 1903, the vessel became owned by James Nourse Limited. The vessel was sold, in Feb. 1904, to 'A/S Ganges (R. Salvesen & Co.)' of Tvedestrand, Norway. Have read (in an expired eBay item) that the vessel was sold in 1915 to Loveridge & Olsen, of Stavanger, Norway (can anyone advise if that was so). And sold again, in Jan. 1916, to 'A/S Asters (Thv. B. Heistein & Sønner A/S)' of Kristiansand, Norway, & renamed Asters. The barque was shelled, set on fire & scuttled, on May 28, 1917, by German submarine UC-55, Oberleutnant zur See Theodor Schultz in command, 150 miles NW of the Scilly Islands, when en route from Le Havre, France, to Philadelphia, U.S.A., with a cargo of vegetable oils & waxes. No loss of life though I cannot tell you how the crew were landed. At 49.36N/9.28W or perhaps at 50.00N/07.00W. Can you provide more info? 14 Bankhall 1364 tons Hull 72 87989 Rosa M. 1884 An iron barque, launched on Jun. 10, 1884. Per 1 (artwork, Rosa M.), 2 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 222.0 ft. long (67.67 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, signal letters JMCT, later RSNL. Built for W. Just & Co. of Liverpool. In 1896/97, per Lloyd's Register, Bank Shipping Co. Ltd. of Liverpool became the vessel's owners with W. Just & Co. her managers. The vessel made many voyages to Australia. Details of such voyages, thanks to Trove, Australia:- i) the vessel left Middlesbrough on Jul. 17, 1885, William Quinn in command, for Sydney, New South Wales ('NSW'), arriving on Oct. 25, 1885. It went on to Wallaroo (160 km. NW of Adelaide) & on Jan. 19, 1886 left Wallaroo for the U.K. with 1800 tons (over 70,000 bushels) of wheat. But, the first time such a thing had ever happened (due to market prices for wheat) the vessel was recalled (ex here) to Adelaide & the grain sold there. A side trip to Sydney & back. The vessel left Adelaide for Talcahuana, Chile, on Feb. 13, 1885. ii) The vessel left Liverpool on Oct. 30, 1886 for Sydney, arriving there on Jan. 26, 1887. On Mar. 02, 1887 the vessel left for Iquique, Chile. iii) On Dec. 19, 1885 the vessel left London for Sydney arriving there on Mar. 17, 1886. It went on to Melbourne & then to Newcastle, NSW, & left Newcastle on May 01, 1886 for Valparaiso, Chile, presumably with coal. iv) The vessel left London on Mar. 22, 1891 for Adelaide (arrived Jun. 25, 1891). The vessel went on to Newcastle & on Sep. 02, 1891 left  for Valparaiso, likely with coal. v) On Nov. 19, 1882 the vessel arrived at Mollendo, Peru, ex Newcastle. vi) The vessel was chartered to carry grain from Lyttelton, New Zealand. On Jan. 20, 1895 the vessel left Lyttelton for London arriving there on Apl. 29, 1895. vii) On May 20, 1895 the vessel left London  for Talcahuana, but due to terrible weather encountered en route was unable to reach Cape Horn. The vessel instead went to Newcastle, NSW,  & on Oct. 15, 1895  left Newcastle for Valparaiso (arrived Nov. 27, 1895) with 1923 tons of coal. viii) On Dec. 01, 1896 the vessel left Mozambique, East Africa. It arrived at Albany, Western Australia ('WA'), awaiting orders & on Jan. 18, 1897 left Albany for Newcastle, which it departed on Feb. 22, 1897 for Tal Tal (or Taltal), Chile, with 1906 tons of coal, arriving there on Apl. 24, 1897. ix) The vessel left Liverpool on Jun. 23, 1902 for Melbourne where it arrived on Jun. 5, 1902. On Jul. 04, 1902 it left for Tal Tal but arrived at Inquique on Aug. 16, 1902. x) On Sep. 13, 1903 the vessel arrived at Newcastle ex East London, South Africa. On Oct. 9, 1903 it left for Salavery, Peru, with 1948 tons of coal. xi) The vessel left Liverpool on Sep. 05, 1904 & Glasgow on Sep 16, 1904 for Fremantle, WA. It arrived, severely weather damaged, on Dec. 23, 1904. It later left Fremantle for Bunbury & left that port on Mar. 03, 1905 for Delagoa Bay ('DB'), Mozambique. On May 21, 1904 it left DB for Newcastle, was again severely damaged & had to put into Port Louis, Mauritius, to effect repairs. It left Port Louis on Aug. 08, 1905 for Newcastle & on Oct. 28, 1905 left Newcastle for Antofagasta, northern Chile. In 1907 the vessel was sold to 'L. Mortola fu A.A.' of Genoa, Italy, for £3,800, & renamed Rosa M. Mortola was the vessel's captain, I read. On Mar. 21, 1907, the vessel left London for Algoa Bay, South Africa, went onward to Newcastle which it left on Oct. 25, 1907 with coal for Valparaiso. No later references to Rosa M. at Trove that I could spot. Miramar states that the vessel was broken up in Feb. 1922. At Genoa, perhaps. The artwork at left, 61 x 40 cm. in size, was, I believe, painted 'by Vessington' of New York. It came from the 'www.agenziabozzo.it' a web site that was lost but I have found again. Was the artwork a print published by an Italian insurance company? Can you correct my text and/or provide more info? 15 Cambrian Chieftain 1492 (or 1361) tons Hull 73 91185 Dova Lisboa 1885 A 3-masted iron barque. Per 1 (William Thomas & Co., Cambrian Chieftain), 2 (data & fine Mark Myers artwork, Cambrian Chieftain, message #131), 3 (Dee, Sea Gallantry Awards, about 25% down, also 4), 5 (St. Paul), 6 (data ex a 'www.skipet.no' 'doc' file here), 7 (Lloyd's Register data, 1930/31 thru 1932/33, ex 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Dova Lisboa), 8 (1894 'loss' of Cambrian Chieftain), 9 (1894 arrival at Taltal ex 10), 11 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 230.0 ft. long (70.1 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, signal letters JTPS, later WJVF. The webmaster has just two editions of Lloyd's Registers available thru 1889/90 & also the 1930s data ex 'plimsollshipdata.org' - see left. Built for Thomas Williams & Co., of Liverpool & Criccieth, Wales. On Jan. 13, 1892, I deduce, the vessel was in collision with the French fishing boat St. Paul. 'The French trawler St. Paul, of Isigny, sank after a collision in the English Channel on Wednesday with the British barque Cambrian Chieftain, of Liverpool. Three fishermen were drowned. The captain and two of the crew were saved by the barque and were afterwards transferred to a trawler and landed at Brlxham'. It would seem that the vessel was 'knocked down' on Apl. 16, 1894, off Cape Horn, while en route from Newcastle, New South Wales, to Coquimbo, Chile, Hugh Thomas in command (crew list - ref. 19 May 1894, almost 50% down) - her cargo of coal shifted and some of her crew, including the Master's wife, were taken off by the barque Dee. Captain Alexander M. Pope was in command of Dee. Indeed 4 of Dee's crew were awarded Sea Gallantry Medals for their rescue efforts. Thought to have been lost, the insurance was paid out in London when news was received of her safe arrival at Taltal, Chile. The first Dee boat rescued 13 persons from Cambrian Chieftain including the Captain's wife & two children. It seems certain that the 5 persons involved in the 2nd Dee boat sent to the rescue of Cambrian Chieftain, including David Belsham in command, were all drowned in the attempt. Henry Thomas may have been sent to Chile to rig & bring home the damaged vessel. After Thomas Williams died, the vessel, in 1896, was sold to William Thomas & Co., of Liverpool & Anglesey. In 1913, the vessel was sold to 'A/S Silva', of Drammen, Norway, 'D. A. Knudsen', of Hølen, Norway, the manager, & renamed Dova Lisboa. In 1916, the vessel was registered at Kristiania, i.e. Oslo, Norway. On Jul. 27, 1917, the vessel arrived at a U.S. port, ex Rio de Janeiro, with a case of smallpox aboard. The 19 crew members were all vaccinated & the ship was fumigated. In Aug. 1918, the vessel was sold to Harald Wellen, of Kristiania. And in 1924, the vessel was sold to 'Chr. Lehland-Egelien', of Drammen. In 1924, the vessel was possibly sold to English ship breakers - assuming that 'for hogging' means 'for breaking up'. May have actually been broken up in 1925 at Mobile, wherever that is. But that data seems to be incorrect. A 1933 data snippet advises - The last arrival from Mobile was the Norwegian barque Dova Lisboa, better known to ship-lovers as the old Cambrian Chieftain. She had had a terrible passage across the Atlantic, having lost three men overboard and also lost her bowsprit in collision with a steamer in the Downs, while she was rust-streaked from stem to stern. After discharge, the sadly battered old .... An eBay item has since stated that the vessel was broken up at Sunderland. Per Miramar, the vessel was deleted from the registers in 1933. And indeed it was. In its final three years of Lloyd's Register listing, the vessel, last surveyed in 1924, was stated to be owned by C. W. Dawkin - of where, I wonder. Can you correct my text and/or provide more info? 16   Dordogne 859 (or 870 or 891) tons Hull 74 89202 Nicolaos Proton 1885 A cargo ship. Per 1 (1885 ref. to launch, p. 221 & ref. on p. 257), 2 (an earlier Dordogne), 3 (brief ref. to Cardiff Steamship), 4 (1918 fire, almost 75% down, ref. 14/15 April 1918), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 200.0 ft. long (60.96 metres), signal letters KDFR. Built for 'Hooper, Campbell & Co., Managers of the Cardiff Steamship Company' Limited ('Cardiff'), i.e. built for Cardiff. I read that Horatio Hooper was the managing owner of Cardiff, which had other owners also, including William Campbell & A. G. Todd. To trade between Cardiff, Wales, & Bordeaux, France. An earlier vessel of the name, similarly owned, carried coal to Bordeaux twice a month & returned with pitwood or a mixed cargo. The vessel was sold, in 1912, to 'L. Vlahakis' (of Greece, perhaps?) & renamed Nicolaos. And was sold again in 1914 to 'Lapaka & Co.' & renamed Proton. Miramar indicate the end came with a fire in May 1918. Just possibly that should be Apl. 1918 since on Apl. 15/16, 1918, a vessel named Proton, then an ammunition ship with 240 tons of ammunition aboard, caught fire at Port Said, Egypt. The Albert Medal was granted to Commander Walter H. C. Calthrop, R.N., for his 'utmost gallantry and disregard of his own personal safety' in twice boarding (accompanied) the abandoned vessel, ablaze in 2 holds, with 'sides being red hot as far aft as the bridge', to try to flood & eventually to actually blow up the ship. 'His efforts undoubtedly prevented serious loss of life.' Miramar list only 1 vessel of the name in the time period. Can you provide more info? 17 Colonist 1467/2286 (N/G) tons Hull 82 96673 1889 A steel, schooner rigged, steamship. Per 1 (aground in 1894). The vessel was launched on Oct. 12, 1889 & was first registered, at London, on Dec. 5, 1889 (scroll to #96673). Was initially owned by Angier Line Ltd. of London, with A. Corner her captain, but, per Lloyd's Register ('LR') of 1892/93 (LR of 1891/92 is not available to the webmaster), became owned by Angier Line (1887) Ltd. of Port Adelaide, Australia, with A. M. Mars serving as her captain. 290.0 ft. long, signal letters LMFN, speed of 12 knots, 190 HP engines by Black, Hawthorn & Co. of Gateshead. The vessel seems not to have been listed in the Mercantile Navy List. I read that the vessel traded between Europe, China & Japan until, in 1891, she came out to Australia under the command of A. M. (Alfred Major) Mars & was chartered by Henry Simpson & Sons to carry coal from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, to South Australia (Adelaide, Wallaroo & Port Pirie) for a period of three years. When that period expired she was chartered by the Adelaide Steamship Company for the same purpose. As per this page, on Sep. 09, 1894, under the command of captain Mars & with a crew of 27, Colonist stranded at the entrance to the harbour at Newcastle. The vessel was en route from Newcastle to Adelaide with a cargo of coal, coke & ore (gold concentrates). No lives were lost. Stated, at that reference, to be owned by T. V. S. Angier of London. Some related newspaper articles (1, 2 & 3). The vessel left Newcastle under tow by steamer Bungaree & after being cast off, at 1:30 a.m., she was hit by two heavy rollers, touched on Cawarra Shoal, became broadside to the rollers & stuck fast. Bungaree tried to assist; a lifeboat look off the captain's wife & some of the crew, the captain, officers etc. staying aboard until 7 a.m. The vessel came to rest on the remaining wreckage of Cawarra, a steamship that had been wrecked at the same spot on Jul. 12, 1866, the position being marked by a buoy. The loss of Cawarra, built by A. & J. Inglis at Glasgow in 1864, was one of the worst maritime disasters in Australian maritime history with 60 of her passengers & crew losing their lives. Colonist's hull was penetrated by the old wreckage in the engine room & in holds 2, 3 & 4, & the vessel soon filled with water. While there were hopes to re-float the vessel, she ended up breaking in two & becoming a total wreck. The wreck was, in fact, a few weeks later, sold at public auction to James Russell & Co. for £155 with the ship's boats selling for an additional £20. An Inquiry into the vessel's loss was held by the local Marine Board. The court concluded that captain Mars was in default for the careless navigation of his vessel. The captain's master's certificate was returned to him but the court recommended that in future he should not be permitted to enter or leave the port without a local pilot aboard. There are a multitude of articles available at Trove, Australia, on the whole subject - a few are linked above. Extensive articles about the Court of Inquiry can be read here (4, 5, 6). Is there anything you would wish to add? #2131 18 Somerton 2198 tons Hull 80 95804 1889 A cargo ship. Per 1 (Sir Henry Samman, 1849/1928, ['Samman'] & Deddington Steamship Co.), 2 (the Samman fleet), 3 ('wrecksite.eu', Somerton wreck), 4 (1922 image, Sir Henry Samman, 3rd from left, ex 5), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 290.0 ft. long (88.39 metres), signal letters LHJW. Built for 'The Deddington Steamship Company, Limited', of Hull, owned & managed by Samman, who served as the company's managing director. The company was presumably named after the village in which Samman was born i.e. Deddington, Oxfordshire. Do read here of Samman's lawsuit against W. H. Coysh, previously the Captain of Somerton. It would seem that the captain, the ship's mate & the steward bought 200 turkeys in Smyrna, now İzmir, Turkey, & carried them aboard Somerton to Leith, Scotland. It was then, it would seem, a fairly common practice for Hull captains to import poultry from other countries, with the knowledge of the owners & without having to pay freight. Samman, however, sued Coysh for, amongst other matters, £10 for the carriage of the 200 turkeys. The court found in Samman's favour on the matter but only in respect of the 108 turkeys owned by Coysh, & in the reduced amount of 54 shillings, a little less that £3. On Sep. 26, 1896, en route from New Orleans, U.S.A., to Rouen, France with a cargo of grain, the vessel was wrecked at Fatouville, on the River Seine, France, near Le Havre. During a storm it would seem. Fatouville? A light (phare) on the estuary of the river Seine, between Hofleur & Quillebeuf, a place noted for its strong tides. WWW data about the vessel is modest indeed. Now while we have limited data, we do have, thanks to Agnès Maleville, of La Bouille, near Rouen, France, some fine images of the ship's bell. At left & here. A very large bell it would seem. Which hangs on a terrace overlooking the Seine River at La Bouille. Doubtless recovered from the 1896 wreck. In 1897, I read, the river authorities demanded the removal of the Somerton wreck. Can you provide more info? An image of the vessel? 19 Torridon 1717 (or 1577 or 1596 tons) - 1774 per Miramar Hull 81 96088 Therese Lona Egle Z 1889 A cargo ship. Which had a very long life indeed. Per 1 (page in Norwegian, with image), 2 (link 1 translated into English), 3 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyd's Register data, Lona, 1930/31 thru 1945/46), 4 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 258.0 ft. long (78.64 metres), signal letters LHTR later JSDV & SGNK. Built for James Gardiner & Co., of Glasgow. The vessel was sold, in 1898 or 1899 (the year of sale is confused) to 'D/S Therese A/S' of Sandefjord, Norway, with P. A. Grøn the managers & renamed Therese. In 1911 the vessel was sold again, to Otto Banck of Helsingborg, Sweden, & renamed Lona. And sold or transferred, in 1921, to Erik Banck, also of Helsingborg with no change of vessel name. It is recorded as 1577 gross tons in Lloyd's Register from 1930/31. It was transferred, in 1937/38, to 'Eric Bancks Rederi' of Stockholm, Sweden, which in 1942 became 'Erik Bancks Rederi AB', also of Stockholm, with Percy Banck the manager. It became recorded as 1596 gross tons in Lloyd's Register of 1943/44. The vessel was sold, in 1946, to 'G. M. Broms Rederi A/B', of Stockholm, with Seth Brinck the manager, again with no change of vessel name. The vessel was sold for the last time, in 1949 for £11,500, to M. Zoboli (who may in fact be only the manager), of Italy, & renamed Egle Z. Does anybody have an edition of Lloyd's Register to clarify the exact ownership? The vessel arrived on Jul. 15, 1954 at Savona, near Genoa, Italy, to be broken up. Alas, I can tell you nothing about the vessel's operational history. Can you add anything? 20 Cape Breton 1764 tons Hull 87 97808 1890 A collier. Per 1 (data), 2 (1920 accident description), 3 (1904 collision), 4 (April 5, 1919), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 258.0 ft. (78.64 metres) long, signal letter LTQV, 175 HP, named by Miss W. Graham of Hylton at the time of the launch for Black Diamond Steamship Co. Limited ('BlackD') of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It would seem that the vessel was initially registered in the name of BlackD but in 1890/91 the registered owner became Babcock & Radcliffe, of Liverpool. Owned (or maybe chartered) by Dominion Coal Co., of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Lloyd's Register ('LR') of 1897/98 lists Dominion Coal Co. (Lim.) as her then owner with Kingman, Brown & Co. the managers. On Jun. 12, 1904, as dawn was breaking, Cape Breton rammed & sank Canada (a 'Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company' passenger ship with 110 passengers aboard) in the St. Lawrence river, 6 miles below Sorel, Quebec. Cape Breton swerved across the path of Canada & her bow struck Canada just forward of the paddle-box on the starboard side. 5 lives were lost. I read that the vessel served on Canada's west coast in 1911/12. In 1913, & in 1919 also, the vessel would seem to have been owned by 'Steamship Carbon Co., Ltd.' of Sydney, Nova Scotia with Dominion Coal Co. Ltd. the managers (certainly from 1911/12 per LR). On Apl. 05, 1919, the vessel's boiler exploded when at Cape Spear, Newfoundland - 5 were killed including the vessel's Chief Engineer & 2nd Engineer. A formal investigation into the explosion was held at Sydney, Nova Scotia - nobody was held at blame, the explosion being caused by 'the weakening of the patch on the centre furnace, and bottom of combustion chamber through corrosion'. Did nobody consider the clear lack of maintenance? On Mar. 07, 1920, the vessel ran aground in a gale at Red Rocks, (SE point of Scatterie (or Scaterie) Island, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia), en route, in ballast, from Halifax to Louisbourg. The vessel hit 100 yards off shore - was pounded by heavy seas & ice. Assistance was not possible due to the vessel & island being surrounded by 1/2 mile of ice. The vessel was lost & the crew (about 30) were all lost also. Two earlier links to data, one re the detail of the 1920 loss referenced to Robert Parsons, seem to have vanished. I should try to save a screen shot of everything perhaps, in case the source dies? Anything to add? 21   Llanberis 2272 tons Hull 83 95190 Badminton Coroniadis Maleas Georgios Markettos 1890 A cargo ship, probably a collier. Per 1 [Llanberis (1) states, however, that vessel was built by Ropner at Stockton], 2 ('pdf', p.61 sinking ref.), 3 & 4 (U-57), 5 ('wrecksite.eu', wreck, Georgios Markettos), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 290.0 ft. long (88.39 metres), signal letters LQDB. Built for Llanberis Steamship Company, Ltd., of Cardiff, ('Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Co.' the owners/managers?). In 1910 the vessel was renamed Badminton. It was sold, in 1912, to Coroniadis Bros., of Syra or Syros, Greece, & renamed Coroniadis. And sold in 1915 to Frangopoulos Bros., also of Syra, & renamed Maleas. And sold again, in 1917, to C. P. Markettos, of Piraeus, Greece, & renamed Georgios Markettos. On Oct. 12, 1917, while en route from Newport, Wales, to Oran, Algeria, with a cargo of coal, the vessel was sunk by a torpedo fired by U-57, Kapitänleutnant Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg in command, in the Bristol Channel, 4 miles off St. Govan's light vessel, Pembrokeshire. There was, apparently, no loss of life. U-57, from Sep. 1916 to Dec. 1917 during WW1, sank 57 ships & damaged 5 more. WWW data is quite limited. Do you have anything to add? An image? 22 Mediterraneo 1804 (or 1564 or 1551) tons Hull 95 Brunsnis Harald Valpen Ossian 1892 A cargo ship. Per 1 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyds Register data, Ossian, 1930/31 thru 1940/41 - not the correct link to this Ossian but you will find good data via the link), 2 ('wrecksite.eu', sinking of Ossian), 3 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 260.0 ft. long (79.25 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 8 knots, signal letters JSBT later SPXK. The vessel was built for 'Eredi C. Cav. Gerolimich', of Lussinpiccolo, a town on the island of Lošinj, western Croatia, in the Adriatic, but then belonging to the Austro Hungarian Empire. It was sold, in 1901, to 'H. A. Petersen' & renamed Brunsnis. And sold again, in 1910, to 'O. H. Wiens', owners of 'AB Kronan', of Malmø, Sweden, & renamed Harald. And sold in 1918 to 'G. Carlsson' & renamed Valpen. In 1919, the vessel was sold again, to 'Rederi-A/B Alfa', O. Börjesson the manager, of Helsingborg, Sweden, & renamed Ossian. On May 15, 1941, the vessel was torpedoed & sunk by British aircraft off the coast of Germany. At 54.00N/7.16.05E. 3 lives were lost, 2 in the attack & one later. Henk de Boer advises (thanks!) that in or about 1940 or 1941, a vessel named Ossian, perhaps this ship, was stuck in the ice at Ijsselmeer, the Netherlands. Folks from Volendam walked out over the ice to take bread & other supplies to the ice-bound ship. You used to be able to see a short video of the walk here - but no longer, it would seem since the link no longer works. There are many gaps in the above data. Now you would think that there would be lots of WWW references to such a long-lived ship. But finding any data at all re this vessel proved to be most difficult. Can you add anything? 23 Thyra 3742 tons Hull 106 1899 A cargo ship. Per 1 (text & image, source of my data - there was also an expired eBay listing, with the same image which, per vendor appeared 'to be a painting at a U.S. port.'), 2 (reference, Thyra), 3 (Thyra data at #37, a 'doc' file), 4 ('wrecksite.eu', 1914 wreck, image), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 339.0 ft. long (103.33 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 10 knots, signal letters HMND. Built for 'A/S D/S Thyra's Rederi' (Wilh. Wilhelmsen), of Tønsberg, Norway, at the cost of 656,012.26 kr., initially for their Africa/Australia/New Zealand service. On Jun. 11, 1914, the vessel was wrecked at Duncansby Head, near John O' Groats, at the NE tip of mainland Scotland, while en route from the Tyne & Dundee to New York with general cargo. Mette Francke has been in touch (thanks!) to advise that his great grandfather was one of the captains of Thyra. When off the coast of India in 1910, his wife Karoline gave birth to a daughter, a sister to Mette's grandmother - the baby being named Thyra Emmelyn Inda. Can you add anything? 24 Marlwood 1981 (or maybe 1988) tons Hull 131 123757 1906 A cargo ship launched in Nov. 1906. Per 1 (comprehensive Lloyd's Register 1918/19 text), 2 (ref. Marlwood, 08/01/2006 & 10/02/2006), 3 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Marlwood), 4 (Lloyds Register data, Marlwood, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', 1930/31 thru 1933/34), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). Single screw, 279.3 ft. long (85.13 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 10 knots, signal letters HJRM, schooner rig, 194 HP. Built for William France, Fenwick & Co., of London. In 1917, the vessel was sold to European Gas Co. Ltd., also of London, with H. A. Brightman & Co., the managers. In 1926 it was sold again, to Harries Bros. of Swansea. The vessel arrived at Briton Ferry, S. Wales, in Jul. 1933 to be broken up at the ship-breaking facilities there of T. W. Ward. I have no data at all about its service history, particularly during WW1. Anything to add? An image perhaps? Donald McLean has kindly been in touch. To advise that his father, William Arthur McLean, served as wireless operator aboard Marlwood from Aug. 1921 until he joined Jolly Inez in 1922. And to provide the Marlwood image which is now available at left. 25 Needwood 1243/1985 (N/G)tons Hull 124 120649 Oakgrove 1906 A cargo ship. Per 1 ('Tuesday, 9 January', Oakgrove), 2 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Oakgrove), 3 (Lloyds Register data, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Oakgrove, 1930/31 thru 1939/40), 4 ('wrecksite.eu', wreck data, Oakgrove), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 279.5 ft. (85.2 metres) long, speed of 8 1/2, 9 1/2, or 10 knots (data differs), signal letters HFGQ later GBJM. Built for Needwood Steamship Co. Ltd. (William France, Fenwick & Co., of London, noted for the carriage of coal to London, probably the owners). Of interest perhaps, William France, Fenwick & Co. owned another vessel of the identical name, also built by Osbourne, Graham & Co., but in 1904. That earlier Needwood was sold by them in 1905 to Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd., of London & Dunedin, New Zealand, & renamed Kaituna. It later, in 1938, became Needwood again. It was wrecked on Dec. 22, 1942 when named Kaiyo Maru. Back to the 1906 'edition'. In 1914, the vessel became owned by William France, Fenwick & Co. In 1925, the vessel was sold to 'Grove Line (Glasgow) Ltd.' (David Alexander & Sons, the managers) & renamed Oakgrove. And registered at Glasgow. Only one WW2 convoy ref. Convoy FN.10 from Southend, Essex, to Methil, Fife, Scotland, in Sep. 1939. On Jan. 09, 1940, while proceeding independently from Santander, Cantabria, Spain, to Grangemouth, Firth of Forth, Scotland, with a cargo of iron ore & a crew of 21 all told, Oakgrove was bombed by German bombers of the 'FliegerKorps X' & sunk. 7 miles NWxW of the North Lemon Buoy, at Cromer, Essex. One life was lost - W. D. Falconer, the ship's Captain. I read that the ship's bell, with a date of 1905 recorded upon it (image at left), was recovered from the wreck by Dave Hamlyn of the 'Hull BSAC 14' (British Sub Aqua Club) during a dive on MV Maise Graham. Anything to add? 26 Ladywood 1981 (or 1983) tons Hull 137 125625 Kaitangata 1907 A cargo ship, a collier, launched on Sep. 10, 1907. Per 1 [Union Steam Ship, Kaitangata (1)], 2 ('wrecksite.eu', sinking, Kaitangata), 3 (1908 New Zealand ref. to vessel at column bottom), 4 (Kaitangata sinking, 2 articles, dated Oct. 26 (L) & Nov. 29, 1937 (R) ex 'The Argus', Melbourne, available here & here), 5 (explosion & loss details), 6 (Lloyds Register data, 'Southampton City Council/ Plimsoll', Kaitangata, 1930/31 thru 1937/38), 7 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 279.5 ft. long (85.19 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 9 or 10 knots, signal letters HLQF later VPBW, 198 HP. Was christened by Mrs. H. L. Pattinson. Built, at a cost of £24,000, for William France, Fenwick & Co., of London, noted for the carriage of coal from the north east to London & other ports in the south of England. It is possible that the vessel was registered in the name of an owned company, as was so for Needwood, above. In 1908, the vessel was sold, for about £26,000, to 'Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd.' ('Union'), of London & Dunedin, New Zealand ('NZ'), & renamed Kaitangata. Was registered at Dunedin. Kaitangata? A town near the coast at South Otago, South Island, NZ, noted for its coal mines which operated from the 1870s thru to 1972. After acquisition by Union, the vessel was fitted with powerful winches, & other improvements were effected. And then, with Captain Ransom in command, the ship carried cargo from Glasgow & Liverpool, to Fremantle, Western Australia. And onwards to Bunbury, to load jarrah (timber) for NZ. The vessel visited Auckland, NZ, as Kaitangata, 12 times between Jul. 10, 1925 & Dec. 11, 1929 - but that is not unusual since she was, of course, NZ owned. In 1930, the vessel was sold to 'Ling Nam Steamship Co. Ltd.', of Hong Kong, owned maybe & certainly managed by S. T. Williamson & Co., with no change of vessel name. But U.K. registered. In late Oct. 1937, the vessel, under the command of Captain H. MacPhee, was en route from Hong Kong, to Hainan Island, southern China, & Haiphong, Vietnam, with a cargo of gasoline & oil, 26,000 & 995 cases respectively. Early on Oct. 25, 1937, a terrific explosion occurred in No. 2 hold, which blew many of the ship's hatches & blew crew members overboard. It also precipitated a massive fire. The crew, & maybe passengers also, dived into the sea to escape the inferno. Nanning arrived on the scene & began the work of survivor rescue. HMS Thracian came at full speed from Hong Kong (about 150 miles distant) in response to an SOS message, & found the vessel engulfed in flames from stem to stern. Thracian took 18 crew on board, including the Captain, while 26 others were missing. Those numbers seem to have been preliminary since the later newspaper article linked above refers to 19 having lost their lives. The vessel may have been carrying some passengers. When Thracian left to return to Hong Kong, the vessel was engulfed in flames. En route, Thracian was instructed to return to the scene & sink Kaitangata, lest she be a danger to navigation. But, by the time she got there, the vessel had sunk. The above all happened at 21.40N/112.00E, close to the China coast in the China Sea. Do you have anything to add? Or to correct? 27 Thimbleby 1152/1865 (N/G) tons Hull 138 124349 Baron Kelvin L'Invicta Takasago Maru 1907 A cargo ship. Per 1 ('Furness Withy', Thimbleby), 2 [H. Hogarth, Baron Kelvin (2)], 3 (Lloyds Register data, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Takasago Maru, 1930/31 & 1931/32), 4 ('wrecksite.eu', re Takasago Maru wreck), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 279.0 ft. long (85.04 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 9 1/2 knots, signal letters HLVC, SPQD, 175 HP engines by McColl & Pollock, Ltd., of Sunderland. Built for Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd., of West Hartlepool. In 1915, the vessel was sold to Hogarth Shipping Co. Ltd. (Hugh Hogarth & Sons the managers) (Baron Line), of Glasgow, & renamed Baron Kelvin, but the ship was registered at Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland. The owners of the Baron Line had, at one time I read, a reputation for being 'economical' when feeding their crews, and, as a result, the line was nicknamed the 'Hungry Hogarths'. In 1923, the vessel was sold again, to British Invicta Shipping Co. Ltd., of London, with 'Eggar, Forrester & Parker, Ltd.' her managers, & renamed L'Invicta. In 1923, the vessel was sold to T. Murao, of Tarumi, Japan, & renamed Takasago Maru. It would appear that it was sold twice more. The 1930/31 Lloyd's Register lists 'Asahi Shokai KK', of Takasago, Japan, as the ship's owner - while the 1931/32 edition states 'Sanbo Kisen Goshi Kaisha', also of Takasago, to be the then owner & notes that the vessel was wrecked in Mar. 1932. Miramar advises that the vessel was wrecked on Mar. 06, 1932, when en route from Miike, Hukuoka, Japan, to Kunsan, South Korea, with fertilizer. I have previously stated here that the vessel ran aground & was lost, in fog, off Kodori Ho, near Mokpo, South Korea, on that date. Was there any loss of life? Can anybody tell us about the circumstances? Or otherwise add anything? 28 Westhampton 1860 tons Hull 133 124324 Elli Westhampton Amphion Baron Cathcart Marjorie Seed 1907 A cargo ship. Per 1 ('Furness Withy', Westhampton), 2 (H. Hogarth, Baron Cathcart), 3, 4 & 5 (wreck references, Marjorie Seed), 6 & 7 (Baillie references), 8 ('wrecksite.eu', sinking, Majorie Seed, image), 9 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 279.3 ft. long (85.13 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 10 knots, code letters HKBF, later HRTJ. Built for 'British Maritime Trust Ltd.', of West Hartlepool, which company would seem, in 1907, to have been amalgamated with Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd. ('Furness'), of West Hartlepool.  Registry, into the name of Furness, was in 1908. In 1909, Furness chartered the vessel to 'Anglo-Hellenic Steamship Company Limited', of Andros, Greece, 'Embiricos' the managers?, & for the duration of the charter the vessel was renamed Elli. It reverted to Westhampton at charter end. The Westhampton's brass ship's bell would seem to be in the Scottish Maritime Museum. In 1913, the vessel was sold to 'J. (John?) Gaff & Co.', of Glasgow, & renamed Amphion, but in 1915, with no change of vessel name, the vessel was acquired by Hogarth Shipping Co. Ltd., via Kelvin Shipping Co. Ltd., of Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland, (Hugh Hogarth & Sons the managers?) (i.e. 'Baron Line'), of Glasgow. In 1917, the vessel was renamed Baron Cathcart. The ship was likely registered at Ardrossan. The owners of Baron Line had, at one time I read, a reputation for being 'economical' when feeding their crews, and, as a result, the line was nicknamed the 'Hungry Hogarths'. In 1924, the vessel was sold again, but the WWW available data from this point becomes confusing. It was sold to Seed Shipping Co. Ltd. ('Seed'), of Newcastle, & renamed either Marjorie Seed or Majorie Seed. Miramar & 'Charles Hocking' both advise us that on Dec. 25, 1924, i.e. Christmas Day, Marjorie Seed was wrecked on Lady Isle, en route from Glasgow to Huelva (Andalusia, Spain), with a cargo of coal & coke. But many sites state that the vessel rather left on Boxing Day, & that the ship was then wrecked on Dec. 26, 1914. I choose to believe that the courts would have had the facts accurately & in that regard there are two legal references. In the first 'Rio Tinto Company' sued Seed for the loss of the cargo, including in their arguments the incompetence of the master & 'unnecessary deviation' of route. In a 2nd case, Lavabre v Wilson, the stranding was again referenced. The courts clearly understood that the wreck was on Dec. 25, 1924. As did Lloyd's. And all refer to the vessel's name being Marjorie Seed. So what happened? The ship left Rothesay Dock, Glasgow, at about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 24, 1924. The name of her captain? It went off course, for reasons unknown, in fair weather, & at about 5:30 p.m. it ran aground on rocks on the NE tip of Lady Isle, a small uninhabited island in Ayr Bay, off Troon. Distress calls at about 6 p.m. brought a lifeboat & a tug (Starlight?) to the scene & they rescued 20 of the 24 man crew. By then, it would appear, all of the vessel's hatches were submerged. It seems likely that the other 4 crew members safely made it to safety by other means. The vessel was apparently badly holed 'in her post side' (does that mean 'port' side?). It was hoped that the vessel could be re-floated, however, in the week following the grounding, the vessel was battered by a south-westerly gale & when inspected in Feb. 1925 she was determined to be a total constructive loss. Alexander Baillie, of Troon, purchased the wreck & with David Gush broke the vessel up & shipped the scrap across to Troon on the Halfton, (later named Hafton). Very little of the wreck remains today. What little there is is apparently spread over a wide area at 55.32.09N/04.43.27W, in about 10 metres of water. A number of slightly different locations are WWW mentioned. Was there an official enquiry into the grounding? Can you add to and/or correct the above? Another image? 29 Grantley 1869 (or 1878) tons Hull 139 127425 Kennington Blenda Diana 1908 A cargo ship. Per 1 ('Furness Withy', Grantley), 2 (Swedish Wikipedia page, Diana), 3 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyd's Register data, 1930/31 thru 1944/45, Blenda). 4 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 279.1 ft. long (85.07 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, 289.1 ft. long overall?, speed of 9 1/2 (or 8) knots, signal letters LFNV, later HMDS, LCET, OHWK & SEQA, 175 HP. Built for Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd. ('Furness'), of West Hartlepool. In 1921, the vessel was sold to A. Capel & Co. Ltd. ('Capel'), of West Hartlepool. Most WWW references to Capel, maybe Arthur Capel & Co. Ltd., are to Cardiff, however. Could it have been a company related to Furness? Especially since 1 does not mention Capel. Can anybody clarify? In 1922 or 1923, the vessel was sold to 'H. Harrison (Shipping) Limited', of London (have seen references to West Hartlepool & Liverpool also), & renamed Kennington. In 1924, the vessel was sold to 'D/S A/S Saima', D. Martens-Nielsen the manager (have also seen a reference to E. Hammer being the manager), of Bergen, Norway, & renamed Blenda. In 1934, the vessel was sold again, to 'Rederi A/B Diana' ('Diana'), of Brändö, Helsinki, Finland, Sigund Nybonde the manager, & renamed Diana. 'Tore Ulff A/B' ('Ulff'),  of Stockholm, Sweden, became the manager in 1941 & Gunner Eriksson by 1941/42 & back to Ulff in 1942/43. On Aug. 05, 1942, when in a German convoy, & en route from Gothenburg to Delfzilj, the Netherlands, with a cargo of 'silkesmassa', a Swedish word I cannot WWW translate, a mine exploded under the vessel's stern. Three crewmen were injured. Can anybody tell us about damage to the ship? On Mar. 05, 1944, the vessel was en route from Emden, Germany to Havringe, Sweden, with a cargo of coke, when it was aerial torpedo bombed & sunk, by RAF aircraft, N. of Borkum, Germany. Two crewmen were killed, probably in the explosion. The rest of the crew took to ship's rafts & were rescued by a German convoy. Can anybody tell us more about the circumstances? Or otherwise add anything to this listing? 30   Alfred Kreglinger 994 (later 1019) tons Hull 148 160885 Pervyse Easingwold Stanwold 1909 A cargo ship. Per 1 (Stanhope Steamship, Stanwold), 2 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Stanwold), 3 (data), 4 (data, including Stanwold crew list, on 3 pages), 5 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyd's Register data, Pervyse, 1930/31 thru 1940/41), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). From 1930/31 210.5 ft. long (64.16 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 10 knots, signal letters MBCT, later MPSV. Built for Cie. Belge-Scandinave de Nav. à Vap. (Soc. Anon.), of Belgium. In 1916, the vessel was sold to 'Messageries Maritimes Belges', of Antwerp, & renamed Pervyse. The vessel was modified & the gross tonnage became 1019. In 1930, the vessel was sold to Atkinson & Prickett Ltd., of Hull, & renamed Easingwold. And in 1937, the vessel was sold again, to 'Stanhope Steamship Co. Ltd.', J. A. Billmeir & Co. the owners/managers, & renamed Stanwold. On Sep. 08, 1937, the vessel was captured by forces of General Franco, off Gijon (N. coast of Spain). The vessel was detained at Ferrol (NW Spain) & was released on Nov. 01, 1937 absent her cargo which had been confiscated. On Jun. 22, 1938 the vessel was interrogated by an armed 'Franco' rebel trawler, 8 miles SW of Europa Point (southernmost point in Gibraltar). One blank was fired at the ship, which was not hit & safely made Gibraltar. On Nov. 26, 1938, the vessel suffered superstructure damage in bombing at Valencia, Spain. 18 WW2 convoy references, all U.K. coastal. On Sep. 15, 1940, the vessel was damaged by German aerial bombing when at Southampton. I would like to be able to tell you what eventually happened to this vessel but the story is most confused. While what follows is my best understanding of the events, corrections are invited. It would seem that Stanwold left the Tyne on Feb. 23, 1941, James McCreadie in command, with 22 aboard all told including two gunners, with a cargo of coal, destined for the Isle of Wight (i.e. Portsmouth/Cowes). It safely made Southend & left there on Sep. 26, 1941 for the final leg of her journey. It would seem that the vessel was in convoy, but if it was that convoy seems not to be listed at 2. It is possible that the voyage is reported there as an 'independent' voyage, but the site denied me access to all 'independent' data. At 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 26, 1941, the vessel reported steering problems. At 4:20 a.m., on Feb. 27, 1941, the vessel was sighted, (by whom?) listing (heavily perhaps) to starboard. Even though Stanwold was wireless equipped, no further word was heard from the vessel which sank, on Feb. 27, 1941, at 50.38.00N/00.20.02W (I think) approx. 7 miles SE of Beachy Head, Sussex, or 19 miles WSW of Selsey Bill. All 22 lives were lost, though Chief Officer John D. (Dalton) Potts 'survived the sinking but died on shore from hypothermia'. Bodies were washed up, some days later, at Pevensey. I have not read the weather conditions at the time. Nor have I read why no vessel went to her assistance, nor how so many lives could have been lost so very close to the coast. The wreck is substantially intact, lying 3/4 upside down, at 50.38.10N/00.20.02W. It would seem that the vessel's ship's bell was long since recovered. What had happened? Most sites say that the cause of the loss is unknown, others say that the cargo of coal had shifted. Another site says that it hit a mine. Some sites say the vessel was travelling eastbound rather than westbound at the time. A strange story indeed. Anything to add? An image? 31 Harlingen 955 (later 938) tons Hull 150 127452 Peter Pan Sirius Newburn Feddy 1909 A cargo ship. Per 1 (Furness, Withy, Harlingen), 2 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Feddy), 3 ('wrecksite.eu', Feddy sinking, image), 4 & 5 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyd's Register data, Feddy, 1930/31 thru 1943/44 & 1944/45), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 210.0 ft. long (64.01 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, signal letters HQDJ, later NGQL OYCL & MPLL, 106 HP. The vessel was built for Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd. ('Furness'), of West Hartlepool. In 1911, the vessel was sold to Friedrich Schulz ('Schulz') of Memel, East Prussia, Germany, now Lithuania, with no change of vessel name. I must wonder whether that truly was a sale. Maybe instead Schultz chartered the vessel & it later reverted to effective Furness ownership? In 1912 the vessel was transferred to G. V. Turnbull & Co. Ltd. of Leith, Scotland, a subsidiary company of Furness, & renamed Peter Pan. In 1916, ownership would appear to have reverted to Furness with no change of vessel name. In 1922 or 1923, the vessel was sold to 'Rederi A/B Sirius', of Helsingborg, Sweden, E. R. Killman the manager, & renamed Sirius. In 1923, the vessel was sold to 'Ensign Shipping Co. Ltd.', of Newport, Wales, G. J. Dunn the manager, & renamed Newburn. In 1927, 'D/S A/S Als', of Copenhagen, Denmark, acquired the vessel, Aage M. Vollmond & N. Winther the managers (in 1931 just Aage Vollmond), & renamed it Feddy. On Apl. 09, 1940, the vessel, lying at Grangemouth, Scotland, was requisitioned by the 'Ministry of War Transport' for WW2 service - managed by Wm. Cory & Son Ltd., with no change of name. Just 15 WW2 convoy references, all U.K. coastal. On Apl. 05, 1942, while en route, independent & in ballast, from Thorshavn, in the Faroe Islands, to Methil, Firth of Forth, Scotland, the vessel was in collision with HMT Visenda, FY138, an armed trawler, off North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands. Feddy would seem to have been sunk - any loss of life on either vessel? Visenda, an ASW (anti-submarine warfare) trawler, had the distinction of being the first ASW trawler to sink a German submarine - U-551 on Mar. 23, 1941, with depth charges. There were no U-551 survivors. Major medals (1 DSO, 1 DSC, 2 DSM's) were awarded to its crew for that success. Visenda survived the war & was returned to her owners in Feb. 1946. The Feddy wreck has not been located. There are, it would appear, images in existence of the vessel as Sirius & as Feddy. But I am not able to find a link to them. The above may well need corrections, which are invited. Can you otherwise add to the story?  32 Armora 1153/1903 (N/G) tons Hull 152 124296 Capelmead Marnetown 1911 A steel steamship. Per 1 (launch, Armora), 2 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). Armora, launched on Jun. 27, 1911, was registered at Manchester on Jul. 28, 1911, & completed in Aug. 1911. It was constructed at the order of Fletcher, Woodhill & Co. of Manchester. Her sea trials were held on Aug. 02, 1911 & at such trials she easily attained a speed of 10 knots. The vessel's initial owner was The Steamship "Armourer" Co. Ltd. of Manchester (Henry A. Fletcher her manager), which company, I read, in 1917, went into voluntary liquidation. Armora is listed in the Mercantile Navy Lists ('MNL') of 1913 thru 1917 (1915). Some modest Armora events:-  On Aug. 30, 1912, when at Hull & about to leave for Cagliari, Italy, with a cargo of coal, a fire broke out in the vessel's lamp room. The lost & damaged equipment was soon replaced. On Mar. 20, 1914, at Corcubion, NW Spain, the vessel was fouled by San Isidoro, a Spanish steamship, causing modest damage to Armora. On Jun. 10, 1914, in the docks at St. Nazaire, France, Armora collided with two floating cranes, damaging them to the extent of about £100. While I am unable to provide much detail, there was a lawsuit in 1916 between James Westoll & others, re Ambient (not Amerent) & the above owners of Armora. Both vessels at the time were in service as collier transports for the British Admiralty. Armora had apparently gone ashore & Ambient came to her rescue & claimed salvage. This report relates to the matter. In 1918, the vessel became owned by Capel & Co. (Newcastle & Hull) Ltd., of Newcastle (Wm. L. Scott, the manager), who renamed the vessel Capelmead. In 1919, the vessel became owned by Town Line (London) Ltd. ('TL'), & managed by George F. Harrison, both of Cardiff, Wales. But registered at London. I note that this site states that the vessel's owner had been rather Arthur Capel & Co. (London) Ltd., who sold the vessel for about £80,000 (another source (in red) re such price data). TL in 1919 renamed the vessel Marnetown. MNL of 1920. A few Marnetown operational data 'snippets'. On May 27, 1919, the vessel arrived at Cardiff, Wales, ex Hernosand (now Härnösand, Gulf of Bothnia), Sweden. It was entered out of Barrry Docks, near Cardiff, on Jun. 17, 1919, for St. Nazaire with 'Crocker' in command - & in both late Jun. 1919 & in mid Sep. 1919 was at Bordeaux, France. On Nov. 06, 1919 the vessel left Penarth, Wales, for Leghorn (Livorno, Italy), went on to Melilla (Spanish Morocco) & back to Maryport (Cumbria coast & Solway Firth). A number of voyages carrying coal from S. Wales to Liverpool - on May 01, 1920 the vessel arrived back at Barry Docks ex Liverpool with 'Stuart' noted to be in command. The last reference I was able to spot, before the vessel was lost, was that on Jul. 17, 1920 the vessel was at Cadiz, Spain. 279.0 ft. long, signal letters HTLD, 210 HP engines by North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Sunderland. Many crew lists are available via here. What finally happened to the vessel? Lloyd's Register ('LR') of 1920/21 notes that the vessel had been 'Wrecked'. At dawn on Aug. 18, 1920, in conditions of dense fog, Marnetown, en route from Huelva, SW Spain, to Bristol, with a cargo of copper ore, ran aground at Cobos Rock, Corrubedo Reef (located SW of Cape Corrubedo - SW of Cape Finisterre in NW Spain). The vessel sank within 1/2 hour of impact. The vessel's crew of 24 & 3 passengers were all saved & landed at nearby Villagarcia, Galicia, Spain. A contemporary news report. In a report dated Aug. 20, 1920, a representative of the Corruna Salvage Company reported the vessel to be a total loss -  & in such report fishermen advised that the vessel had broken in two. The webmaster has not read the name of the vessel's captain at the time of her loss. 'Crocker', J. H. G. Crocker it would seem, was reported to be the vessel's captain in LR of 1920/21, since 1919, but 'Stuart' may have been the vessel's captain in May 1920.   Anything to add? Another image? #2686 33 Edenor 1477 (or 1425 or 1429 or 1449) tons Hull 156 5195 136736 (later) Camden Juliette Liisa Marja-Liisa Nurminen Arkadia 1911 An 'archdeck' collier, that had a very long life indeed. Per 1 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Juliette), 2 (extensive data & drawings, as per 'The Marine Engineer..' below), 3 (comprehensive vessel's history, ex 'In the Wake of the Uljas', published in 2006 by the John Nurminen Foundation), 4 (Lloyd's Register data, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Camden, 1930/31 thru 1938/39), 5 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyd's Register data, Juliette/Liisa, 1938/39 thru 1945/46), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 240.2 ft. long (73.21 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, 250.2 ft. long (76.26 metres) overall, speed of 9 1/2 (or 8 1/2) knots, call letters  MFRJ, later JHMS & OFDT. Built on the 'Ayre-Ballard arch principle' to effect lower steel usage & a lesser hull weight, in fact the first such ship. With absolutely clear holds. Due to stormy weather, the vessel was unable to run the measured mile at its trials. Built for 'Rederi A/B Edenor'/'Rederiaktiebolaget Edenor', of Helsingborg, Sweden, 'Tuve Persson' the managers, ('Gronquist, Bryan & Co.', of Newcastle, would seem to have ordered the vessel). Her construction was delayed by industrial action (boilermakers). 'Engineering Magazine' published in 1911 & 'The Engineering Index', published in 1912 (both in the U.S.), contain illustrated descriptions of the vessel's design, & 'Where Ships Are Born' refers to the vessel. 'The Marine Engineer...', in Jun. & Jul. 1911, however, featured many pages re the vessel which are available here (search for 'Edenor') - at pages 402/5 & 457/60 (also 346/7 & 391). Its maiden run was with coal to Calmar, Sweden. The vessel would seem to have spent most of its life in the Baltic. On Dec. 23, 1914, the vessel was sold to 'Gardner Lockett & Hinton Limited' ('Gardner') of London, (colliery agents, coal contractors & ship owners), & renamed Camden. Gardner, in 1929, was reorganised to become 'Charrington, Gardner, Lockett & Co. Ltd.' ('Charrington'), also of London. In 1930, the vessel was transferred to Charrington Steamship Co. Ltd. of London, with Charrington the managers. In 1938, the vessel was sold to 'Angel & Son Co. Ltd.', of London, Claude Angel the manager, with no change of vessel name. On Apl. 13, 1939, the vessel was sold to 'Laiva O/Y Fennia Steamship Co. Ltd. ('Laiva') of Helsinki, (Helsingfors), Finland, & renamed Juliette, 'John Nurminen O/Y', of Helsinki, the managers.  Laiva was almost entirely owned (997/1000) by F. W. Moorsom & Co. Ltd., of Cardiff, who chartered the vessel for service from the U.K. to the Iberian peninsula. Indeed the vessel was named 'Juliette' after the daughter of the principal of Moorsom. Just 2 WW2 convoy ref. re Juliette & none re Liisa. The vessel was requisitioned, in Jan. 1940, by the Finnish Government, ordered to proceed from Port de Bouc, France, to Bizerta, French North Africa, & there loaded 4 12 inch guns ex General Alexeyev for use in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. She made it to Newcastle & there was rammed by Warlaby, necessitating 3 weeks of repairs. The vessel eventually discharged its cargo at Turku, Finland, on Sep. 08, 1940. On Sep. 03, 1940, the vessel had been renamed Liisa. Was then engaged on the Baltic/North Sea trade. On Jan. 03, 1941, the vessel sank at Bremen, Germany, when hit in an Allied air attack. She was re-floated in mid April, towed to Helsinki, & was repaired (took a whole year). The vessel was then time chartered to the German Government for trading on the Norwegian coast & North Sea thru 1944. And was chartered again to carry reparation goods to the Soviet Union thru Sep. 1945. On Oct. 21, 1947 the vessel was renamed Marja-Liisa Nurminen. In 1948, Laiva amalgamated with 'John Nurminen Oy', of Helsinki. In 1949, the vessel was sold to 'Laivanisännistöyhtiö Arkadia', of Helsinki, & renamed Arkadia. In 1951, the vessel was transferred to 'Etelä-Suomen Laiva Oy', of  Helsinki, 'Polttoaine Osuuskunta i.L.' the managers. On Aug. 26, 1959 the vessel was sold to 'Sorema S.p.r.l.', of Hemixem (nr. Hoboken), Belgium, & arrived there on Oct. 08, 1959 to be broken up. Very few WWW references to the vessel. But lots of data is available thanks to 'Matti Pietikäinen', Hannu Vartiainen of the Rauma Maritime Museum, & the 'Nurminen Foundation'. Do read the complete story via link 3 above. Anything you can add? 34 Hyltonia 1902 (or 1918) tons Hull 158 129781 Maindy Hill 1911 A 'corrugated' ship, a collier. Per 1 (vessel launch, ex 'The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect', of Nov. 1911, a 'Google' book), 2 ('wrecksite.eu', wreck data, image, Maindy Hill), 3 (Hyltonia, corrugated design), 4 (Clara, 1917 rescue), 5 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Maindy Hill), 6 (ref. 'Saturday, March 9th 1940', Maindy Hill), 7 (St. Rosario, 6th item down), 8 (Maindy Shipping, 1922, 80% down re Maindy Lodge), 9 (Lloyd's Register data, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Maindy Hill, 1930/31 thru 1938/39), 10 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). Single screw, 279.5 ft. long (85.19 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 8 knots, signal letters HTNK later GLPQ. Built for 'The Ericsson Shipping Company Limited', of Newcastle. The vessel was requisitioned for service during WW1, but I have not read the dates. On Apl. 06, 1917, the vessel rescued, after they had spent 3 hours in lifeboats, the crew of Clara, a 924 ton barque, stopped & scuttled by UC-55, 28 miles N. of Founa, (where exactly is it?), Shetland Isles. Clara was en route from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Copenhagen, Denmark, with a cargo of wheat. Hyltonia landed Clara's crew at Lerwick, Shetland Islands. Suzanne McMann has kindly been in touch to advise that Harold H. (Henry) Duncan, Suzanne's great grandfather (?/1949), was Master of Hyltonia during WW1. And that in Jul. 1919 a book was presented to Captain Duncan 'for his retention as a memento of War Service'. The book was a copy of 'C.B. 415 War Instructions For British Merchant Ships', a secret (C.B. means Confidential Book) 100 page book issued by the Admiralty in Aug. 1917 that in both the original & in this presentation copy was lead weighted in its cover that it might be thrown overboard, sink & not end up in enemy hands. Thank you Suzanne for so advising us. In 1919 the vessel was sold to 'Maindy Shipping Company Ltd.' ('MaindyCo'), of Cardiff, & in 1920, was renamed Maindy Hill. I previously had instead referenced 'Jenkins Richards E' instead, which would seem to correctly be 'Jenkins, Richards & Evans Ltd.' ('Evans'), of Cardiff, Wales. Muriel Goodman advises (thanks!) that 'Jenkins' refers to Thomas Jenkins, her grandfather, who owned MaindyCo. (There was also a company named 'E. Jenkins & Company', also of Cardiff.) I would presume that Evans were therefore the managers for MaindyCo. The name of Maindy would seem to originate with the area so named in the city of Cardiff. MaindyCo would seem to have gone into liquidation in 1921 & in that year, per Miramar, the vessel was acquired by Sir David R. Llewellyn ('Llewellyn'), of Newcastle - with James Rattary of Cardiff likely the manager. Llewellyn had acquired ten MaindyCo steamers at auction, including Maindy Hill, for a total of £290,000. In 1925, the vessel was sold to 'Matthew Taylor', of Methil, Fifeshire. I read that the vessel was requisitioned for WW2 service by the Admiralty. Just 2 WW2 convoy references, both U.K. coastal, in Jan. & Feb. 1940. On Mar. 09, 1940, while headed south, with a cargo of coal from Methil bound for Bayonne, SW France, the vessel was in collision with St. Rosario, 4 1/2 miles off Heugh Lighthouse, Tees Bay, Hartlepool. The vessels were crossing courses. There was contact between the stem of St. Rosario & the port side of Maindy Hill, which sank as a result of the encounter. 23 Maindy Hill crew members, one of them injured, were landed the next day at Hartlepool Dock Head. Anything to add? Another image? 35   Petrel 599 (or maybe 499 or 800) tons Hull 157 1911 A cargo ship completed Mar. 1911. Per 1 (in Portuguese), 2 (in Portuguese), 3 (in Portuguese) 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 185.0 ft. long, 56.4 metres long perpendicular to perpendicular, 62 HP. I surely regret my inability with languages, in this case with Portuguese. Petrel was, it would seem, a small coastal steamer, built for 'Empreza de Nav. Sul Rio Grandense', of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil. And from 1915 from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It had a short life. It left 'Rio Grande do Sul' on May 29, 1915 bound for Rio de Janeiro, & was declared lost on Aug. 18, 1915. All 24 crew were lost. A 1915 date would seem to be confirmed by Lloyds Register. However the Brazilian Navy believes that the vessel was sunk on the south coast of Rio de Janeiro after a collision with a barque named Storning - but in 1916 rather than in 1915. It would seem, that a wreck known locally as Navio do Breu, (which means 'Ship of the Grease', because in the wreckage there are dozens of barrels of grease), may well be the wreck of Petrel. The vessel was, if I understand correctly, engaged in the shipment of salt from Rio to Rio Grande do Sul for 'Pachico Aguiar & Co'. But carried other cargo also. I need help, both with the facts & with the translation. Is what I have said essentially correct? An image? 36 Honoreva 1452 tons Hull 173 134700 Asturienne 1913 An 'arch deck' freighter. Per 1 (data, Honoreva), 2 (Maggie lawsuit), 3 (refs. Honoreva), 4 (ref. Honoreva at page bottom), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). Data about the vessel & a plan also, I believe, was published in 'Shipbuilding and Shipping Record' of Sep. 18, 1913. 220.5 ft. long (67.21 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, 245.0 ft. long (74.68 metres) overall, of a size built to be able to operate in the St. Lawrence River, Canada, lock system of its time. Built - on the 'Ayre-Ballard arch principle' to effect lower steel usage & a lesser hull weight - for Donald Steamship Co. Ltd. of Bristol & New York (1, 2), but registered at Bristol. T. L. Evans was the managing owner. In 1914, the vessel was chartered to Ontario Transportation & Pulp Co. ('OTP'), of Montreal, to carry pulpwood (capacity 850 chords) to the paper mill at Thorold, Ontario, owned by OTP's parent company, Ontario Paper Co. Ltd. of Thorold. To supply newsprint for the Chicago Tribune newspaper. The vessel became registered at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1916. On Aug. 17, 1916, OTP purchased the vessel & soon sold or transferred it to 'Great Lakes Transportation Co. Ltd.', of Montreal. Who sold her to 'Cie. Royale Asturienne de Mines', (an international company now based in Belgium, I believe) of Tonnay-Charente (western France, N. of Bordeaux). The vessel was registered in France & renamed Asturienne. I read that she was recorded as a war loss in Q3 of 1917, but have read no detail of the circumstances. In May 1916 a lawsuit was heard by the Supreme Court of Canada respecting a collision in which Honoreva was involved. At a date unknown to the webmaster, Honoreva collided with Maggie a barge under tow at the time by Jackman, a tug. In the Soulanges canal, when passing through the abutments of an open swing bridge. Maggie was damaged & sank as a result of the collision. Honoreva was held to be solely at fault. The long abandoned Soulanges canal bypassed the rapids between Lake Saint-Louis & Lake Saint-Francis, Quebec. The canal operated from 1899 to 1958 when its role was taken over by the Beauharnois Canal. Can you help any? Perhaps with another image. 37 Pensacola 2092 (later 2113) tons Hull 182 135906 Clapton Saima Danapris 1914 An 'arch deck' cargo ship. Per 1 (builder's half model, extensive text & image of model), 2 (Furness Withy, Pensacola), 3 ('Sunday, 27 April', near bottom, Danapris), 4 & 5 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyd's Register data, Saima/Danapris, 1930/31 thru 1945/46), 6 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 279.2 ft. long (85.10 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 9 (or 8 1/2) knots, signal letters LDQB later LCWR & SVIW. Built on the 'Ayre-Ballard arch principle' to effect lower steel usage & a lesser hull weight. Built for Furness Withy & Co. Ltd. for their U.S. service, registered at West Hartlepool. In 1921, the vessel was sold to Arthur Capel & Co. Ltd., also of West Hartlepool, but maybe of Newcastle. In 1923, the vessel was sold to 'H. Harrison Shipping Ltd.' of West Hartlepool & renamed Clapton. In 1925, the vessel was sold again, to D/S A/S Saima, of Bergen, Norway, & renamed Saima. Bergmann & Hammer ('Hammer') or Otto W. Bergmann, of Bergen, Norway, were likely the managers, however from 1930/31 D. Martens Nielsen were, per Lloyd's Registers, the vessel's managers. The vessel was sold again, in 1936, to Stefanos P. Synodinos, of Piraeus, Greece, Synodinos Bros. the managers, & renamed Danapris. On Apl. 27, 1941, when at Piraeus, the vessel was bombed by German aircraft & sunk. The story is confused however. I read i) that the steamer was repaired by the Germans for their own use & ii) that the vessel was refloated but was wrecked at Chalkis, Euboea, before repairs had been effected. Can you help any? Perhaps with another image? 38 Wingate 1911 (later 1914) tons Hull 176 135899 Vedamore Erland Neeme 1914 A cargo ship. Per 1 (Furness Withy, Wingate), 2 [Johnston Line, Vedamore (2)], 3 (data & image, Erland, in Norwegian & English), 4 (Lloyd's Register data, Erland, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', 1931/32 thru 1935/36), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 279.3 ft. long (85.0 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 10 knots, or maybe 8 1/2 knots only, signal letters WPNM later LGTR & LCIS. 5 says 'corrugated'. I have seen a data 'snippet' dating from 1925 (Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Vol. 67) that states that the vessel, designed by a Mr. Haver, was 'an enormously bad vessel'. Can anybody tell us about that & about 'corrugated sides'? But now see the Newton Ash listing & here re 'corrugated'. Built for Furness Withy & Company Ltd. ('Furness'), of Newcastle. In 1922, the vessel was transferred to Johnston Line Ltd., which line was 50% owned by Furness & renamed Vedamore. In 1926, the vessel was sold to D/S A/S Eikland, of Risor, Norway, with I. (Isak) M. Skaugen, of Oslo, Norway, the manager, & renamed Erland. In 1927, D/S A/S Eikland moved to Oslo, Norway. In 1939, the vessel was sold to 'Mägi, Arvad, Ferdinand Pajomägi, Edouard Risna, & Juri Lauri', who seem to be known as 'F. Pajomägi et al', of Tallinn, Estonia, & renamed Neeme. I have also read the name of Neme but that name seems to be incorrect. Can anybody tell us about service early in WW2? I read that on Mar. 22, 1940, while en route from Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., to Tallinn, with a general cargo, the vessel was damaged by ice, abandoned & sank. Off Landsort Lighthouse. At 58.53.05N/18.52E, E. coast of Sweden, in the Baltic, in the approaches to Stockholm, Sweden. Have not read the circumstances. Can you help any? Perhaps another image. 39 Dagenham 2178 tons Hull 259 143424 Nikitas K. laid down as War Ness 1919 A cargo ship, a collier/coaster. Per 1 (Hudson Line), 2 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Dagenham), 3 (Lloyd's Register data, Dagenham, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', 1930/31 thru 1945/46), 4 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 280.0 ft. long (85.34 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 10 knots, signal letters KCNT later GCDQ. Laid down as War Ness, for the British Government, but delivered to J. (or John) Hudson & Co. Ltd. of London, as Dagenham. Registered at London. In 1921, the vessel was transferred to 'Hudson Steamship Co. Ltd.', which company was formed in 1920, with J. Hudson & Co. Ltd., the managers. There is a place called War Ness - a rocky headland in the Orkney Islands, the southern tip of the island of Eday. From 1905, Hudson would seem to have been a subsidiary of 'Samuel Williams and Sons Limited' ('Williams'), of London, tug & collier owners. Would have carried coal from the north east to the river Thames & presumably to Dagenham. A now long gone 'pdf' re Samuel Williams seemed to indicate that the vessel was involved in the evacuation of the British army from Dunkirk from May 27 to Jun. 04, 1940. But not so, it would appear. On Nov. 15, 1940, while en route from Methil, Fife, Scotland, to London with a cargo of coal, the vessel was mined in the Thames Estuary, 2.5 cables ENE of the Mouse Light vessel, & was beached on Yantlet Flats. It was re-floated on Nov. 21, 1940 & beached on Grain Island, & on Nov. 27, 1940 was re-floated a second time & towed by two tugs to Dagenham - Williams tugs, I presume. 53 WW2 convoy references, mainly U.K. coastal but including service in Jun. thru Aug. 1944 to Seine Bay, France, re the Normandy landings, & in 1945 to Antwerp, Belgium. The vessel was at Antwerp for six weeks in early 1945, being repaired. A modest incident at Antwerp - on one occasion, a bomb fell in the next dock. A seaman was emerging from a bathroom rigged upon the deck of Dagenham & the blast blew soot out of the funnel & covered him. He had to start his bath all over again! It would seem that the vessel's captain in Jun. 1944, (his name?) insisted upon being involved in the Normandy landings but collapsed & died from exhaustion a few days later. During WW2, the vessel carried a cargo of ships' biscuits to Normandy to feed the starving inhabitants. It turned out they had plenty of food (dairy products, meat etc.) & didn't want ships' biscuits. The vessel tried to discharge their cargo at several French coast ports, but were always turned away - no one wanted ships' biscuits! They finally took the cargo back to Dagenham. In 1956, the vessel was sold, for £52,000, to 'Minos Cia Maritima S.A.', of Panama, D. C. Kapotas, the manager, & renamed Nikitas K. On Nov. 29, 1957, the vessel, en route from Stratoni, Greece, to Brăila, river Danube, Romania, with a cargo of pyrites, sank in a gale in the Black Sea, with the loss of the Captain & 5 crew members. Have not been able to read the circumstances or the location, except for a reference to northern Turkey - presumably it sank then in the SW Black Sea off the Turkish coast. We thank Peter Buckwell for a significant portion of the above data - Peter's father, Arthur C. E. Buckwell (1914/ ), served, he advises me, as radio officer aboard the ship from Sep. 1943 to Feb. 1945. Some of Arthur's WW2 recollections are here. Can you add anything? An image? 40 Gap 2008 tons Hull 260 laid down as War Taff 1920 A cargo ship, a 'self-trimming' collier/coaster. Per 1 ('wrecksite.eu', Gap wreck data), 2 (data & image, Gap, in French), 3 (link 2 translated), 4 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 281 ft. (about 90 metres) long. Laid down as War Taff, for the British Government, but delivered to 'Societe Nationale d'Affretements', of Rouen, or Le Havre, or possibly Paris, France, as Gap & registered in France. At about 9 p.m. on Feb. 24, 1928, the vessel, en route in ballast from Rouen, France, to Barry, Wales, ran aground in a severe SE gale at Lowland Point, near Manacle Rocks, Falmouth, Cornwall. The Coverack lifeboat responded to her SOS call, & landed 15 crewmen - the officers, however, chose to stay aboard the ship. Tugs also came to her assistance but were unable to help in the gale conditions. I have read that the wreck site is also referred to as 'Coverack', the name of a nearby fishing village. The vessel was holed by the rocks & became a total loss. It was sold in situ. 1 notes that 8 months later, in yet another storm, the Coverack lifeboat was again at the scene, rescuing 6 men who were on the wreck breaking her up. The Manacle Rocks, located about a mile off the E. coast of the Lizard peninsula, 'have taken a terrible toll of ships over the years, with 400 victims buried in the church yard' (at St. Keverne). But Lowland Point is, I believe, on the nearby mainland. WWW data about Gap seems to be quite limited. Can you help any? 41 S. B. Lund 1749 (later 1595) tons Hull 221 St. Joseph Tautra Rosasicula 1920 A cargo ship, especially designed for the timber trade. Per 1 (most extensive data & image, WW2 service incl. independent voyages, Tautra), 2 (1936 grounding, St. Joseph), 3 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Tautra), 4 (fine image, S. B. Lund, at Blyth, Northumberland in 1929), 5 (Lloyd's Register data, St. Joseph, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', 1930/31 thru 1935/36), 6 (Lloyd's Register data, Tautra, 'Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', 1937/38 thru 1945/56), 7 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 258.0 ft. long (78.64 metres) perpendicular to perpendicular, speed of 10 1/2 (or maybe only 9) knots, signal letters MVRQ later LCYW. Built for 'D/S A/S Kriton', of Bergen, Norway, 'Jens Lund & Co. A/S', the managers. Registered at Tønsberg, Norway. In Feb. 1928, the vessel was sold to 'D/S A/S St. Joseph', of Tønsberg, no change of manager, & renamed St. Joseph. In 1936, the manager changed to Leif Gjesdahl, of Tønsberg. In Apl. 1936, the vessel was sold to 'Tønsberg Industri & Sjøfarts-Bank A/S', of Tønsberg, 'Rafen & Loennechen' the manager. Such ownership change seems not to have been recorded in Lloyd's Register. Have not read about her service in the early years. Likely Baltic & the North Sea. In Oct. 1936, St. Joseph was en route from Tønsberg to Manchester with a cargo of iron ore. In gale conditions, the vessel ran aground on Oct. 14, 1936 on rocks at Grey Island in the Sound of Mull. At 56.28.4N/5.36.3W. Distress rockets were fired & an SOS was broadcast. She was attended by a Granton trawler which could offer no assistance in the terrible weather conditions - & when the trawler left the scene by Northern Coast, a Coast Line steamer. Also attending was the Barra lifeboat which came 70 miles to assist. While the St. Joseph crew did not wish to abandon the ship, eventually Northern Coast did take off 17 crew members & safely landed them at Tobermory - Captain Anderson & three crew members stayed aboard the ship. The Barra lifeboat later rescued the Captain & the three crew members of St. Joseph & landed them at nearby Oban. It was considered unlikely that the ship could survive its battering on the rocks. However it did indeed survive. The cargo was jettisoned & likely a week or so into Nov. 1936 it must have been towed off (by whom & to where?) to presumably effect repairs. In Apl. 1937, the vessel was sold to 'Skibs. A/S Tautra', of Trondheim, Norway, 'Karl Torkildsen', also of Trondheim, the manager, & renamed Tautra. Then in North Sea service. 150 WW2 convoy references, principally U.K. coastal, but including at least 2 N. Atlantic crossings (carrying lumber & pit props), Mediterranean service, mainly from late 1944, (to such ports as Bari, Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Augusta), to Norwegian waters in 1940, a single trip to Reykjavik, Iceland. The vessel was returned to her owners on Oct. 01, 1945 & resumed North Sea service. In Apl. 1956, the vessel was sold to 'Societa Rosamaris di Navigazione', of  Messina, Sicily, 'Francesco Longobardo' the manager, & renamed Rosasicula. 1595 gross tons in Lloyd's Register of 1957/58. Registered at Palermo, Sicily, in 1961. On Jul. 07, 1962, while en route from Ravenna, Italy, to Alexandria, Egypt, with a cargo of fertiliser, the vessel ran aground on rocks near Ras el-Tin, outside Alexandria Harbour, Egypt. While I have not read the circumstances, I read that holds Nos. 1 and 2 & the engine-room were flooded. The vessel broke in 2 on Dec. 22, 1962, & was broken up nearby. Can you add to and/or correct the above? 42 Papelera 1870 (later 1851) tons Hull 260 160239 (later) Almenara 1922 A cargo ship. Per 1 (data & giant image, Papalera), 2 ('convoyweb.org', WW2 convoy duty, click on 'SHIP SEARCH' then insert Almenara), 3 (modest collision, Cicero, at page bottom), 4 ('Southampton City Council/Plimsoll', Lloyd's Register data, 1930/31 thru 1944/45, Almenara), 5 (Miramar, link, you now must be registered to access). 260.1 ft. (79.28 metres) long perpendicular to perpendicular (or maybe 260.2 ft.), especially constructed for the Norwegian general trade, speed of 10 knots (or maybe 8 only), signal letters LCTW later GSYV. Built for D/S I/S Garonne, of Christiania (Oslo), Norway, with Fearnley and Eger the managers. In 1929, the vessel was sold to 'Mossgiel Steamship Co. Ltd.' ('Mossgiel), of Glasgow, Scotland, John Bruce & Co. or John Bruce Junr., the managers & owners, & renamed Almenara. Mossgiel is noted for naming its ships with a name that had the letter 'a' as its first & last letters. On Apl. 04, 1929, Almenara was in collision with Cicero, a Hull trawler. There was little damage to either vessel. 38 WW2 convoy references, including at least 5 N. Atlantic crossings, service in the Mediterranean (Alexandria, Bizerta, Algiers), West Africa (Freetown), Caribbean (extensive), U.K. coastal, & one voyage to Reykjavik, Iceland. On Aug. 18, 1943, Almenara joined convoy KMS.23 in progress for her voyage from Algiers to Bizerta, Tunisia. Some weeks later, she would seem to have left Syracuse, Sicily, for Taranto, in southern Italy, with 84 aboard, I read, & a cargo of Government stores & munitions. On Sep. 20, 1943, the vessel hit a mine 25 miles SSE of Taranto. At 40.15.1N/17.16.3E. 41 lives are said to have been lost. But the crew/passenger numbers seem to be confused. Why? I read that on Sep. 21, 1943, Motor Torpedo Boat 89 found 2 rafts crowded with Almenara survivors, & helped by an Italian flying boat, ended up with 52 Almenara survivors aboard. Those 52 were transferred to Landing Craft LCI(L)6. I am not sure where they were landed, likely at Taranto. If both 52 & 41 are correct Almenera must have had 93 aboard her rather than 84. I have not spotted the name of Almenera's Captain at the time of her loss. Did he survive the disaster, I wonder? WWW data about the vessel is modest.  Can you help any? An image? TO END THE PAGE In this spot, I will add in some of the more unusual names of vessel's registered in Lloyd's Registers. An example is the many vessels named Why Not? Will add more names here as I come across them. Often there were more than a single vessel of a particular name. Catch Me, an 1886 steamer of 18 tons, built at Glasgow. ON#95023 Forget-me-not, an 1845 schooner of 110 tons, built at Limerick Girl I Love, an 1842 schooner of 126 tons, built at Cork. ON#8356 I'll Away, a 99 ton schooner, built at Cardiff in 1864 I'll Try, a brig of 152 tons, built in 1863 at Aberdeen I.O.U., a schooner of 170 tons, built in 1866 at Ipswich Let me Alone!, a schooner of 108 tons, built in 1837 at Yarmouth Never Despair, an 1863 snow, built at Sunderland by J. Lister No Name, an 1866 brig, built by Campbell of Nova Scotia, Canada.  ON#55515 Only Son, a 178/161 ton brigantine, built at Teignmouth in 1852, also an 1861 63 ton schooner built at Leeds by Teall Pass-by, an 1862 schooner, built at Kingsburg Peeping Tom, a 284/248 ton barque, built at Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1853 Peep o'Day, an 1863 barque, built at Newcastle (1, Note) Slyboots, an 1868 barquentine, built at Dartmouth Tea Taster, an 1864 fully rigged ship, built at Quebec, Canada Touch not, an 1857 schooner of 89 tons, built at Dartmouth We Tottie, an 1845 brig of 163 tons, built at Newcastle What's That To You, an 1867, 34 ton Grimsby built sailing smack, that was involved in a collision, on Sep. 20, 1875, as you can read here. With J. E. McConnell, a steamship. ON#56975 Why Not?, an 1862 schooner, built at Jersey XYZ, a 244 ton brig, built at Shields in about 1818 Your Name, a 21 ton smack, built at Portsmouth in 1846 May I suggest that you navigate the site via the index on page 001.PRIOR PAGE / NEXT PAGE To Thomas M. M. Hemy Data Page 41. All of the other Thomas Hemy pages, including image pages, are accessible though the index on Thomas Hemy page 05. [ ] £ à è é ö To the Special Pages Index. A SITE SEARCH FACILITY Search This Site for Get a Free Search Engine for Your Web Site THE GUEST BOOK - GO HERE E-MAIL THIS LINK Enter recipient's e-mail:                       WILLIAM NAISBY AND HIS FAMILY - an article by Peter Mayes (William Naisby was Peter's great great grandfather) In the latter half of the eighteenth century, the Naisby family were farming at Crawcrook, a village on the Hexham road, just west of Newcastle, close to both the Tyne and the Roman wall. Robert Naisby had three sons, John born in 1771, Roger in 1773 and Robert in 1774. When Roger was twenty-one he married Mary Forster, also twenty-one and from Whitehall, near Chester-le-Street and they settled to farm at Sacriston, a small exposed town, perched on a ridge, a few miles north-west of Durham. Here three sons were born to them in rapid succession: in 1796, a year after the marriage, William, then Thomas in 1797 and John in 1798. There is very little that I have been able to uncover about William’s early life, but it can be assumed that not wishing to follow his father as a farmer, he worked his way up through the shipbuilding trade, as a shipwright then a foreman and, eventually, a master builder. During this time he had met a girl called Ann Elizabeth Bulmer from Staindrop, presumably a relative of his partner Bulmer, and they were married at St. Paul's, Jarrow, on the 8th of March 1829. By the 1830s they had settled in South Hylton on the Wear, just west of Sunderland. Here, in 1836, he took over a yard from William Gales, which formerly belonged to Edward Potts. By now, he had a three-year old daughter, Mary, who had been born at South Hylton. The yard rapidly appeared to gain momentum and prestige and many medium-sized barques were built there, the first four of which were launched under the names of Naisby and Partner and the next two under the names of Naisby and Bulmer, so it is quite possible that he had been in partnership with Bulmer since 1836. After 1836 though, the barques were launched under his name alone. His early life may have been closely mirrored by another shipbuilder in South Hylton, a man whom he knew well for the rest of his life: George Bartram. George was the son of a carpenter; he had been orphaned when young and was apprenticed at the age of eleven to William Gales at South Hylton. He then worked as a foreman for the Dryden shipbuilder, Beddick, from 1822 to 1831 and finally started as master-builder at South Hylton in partnership with John Lister in 1838 though, according to the Customs House registers, he had been in partnership with J. M. Gales in 1828 and had launched the ‘John Craig’, a small craft of eighty-six tons, under the name of J. M. Gales and George Bartram, builders. He had married Margaret Appleby and his family were close contemporaries, neighbours and maybe relatives of the Naisbys. However, he was not to be so fortunate in his domestic life: he lost seven sons at early ages, all buried in the South Hylton churchyard and then lost his son, George Appleby, at the age of twenty. George’s professional life, though, was more successful. He was on his own at South Hylton and by 1865 he had brought his only surviving son, Robert, into the business and so founded the firm of Bartram and Son which was to continue as a family firm and become one of the most famous firms on Wearside until its closure in the 1970s. By 1851 William Naisby was living with his family at Ford Dockyard House.  He had eleven men working for him, had launched twenty-one ships, mostly barques, and now had three daughters:  Mary (18), Ann (13) and Elizabeth (9) and it is possible that, by now, his nephew, George Naisby who was living in South Hylton, was one of his employees. He certainly was in 1869. Another nephew, Thomas Forster Naisby, may also have been employed by him and was now living in the neighbouring village of Pallion. Thomas’s son, another Thomas Forster Naisby, was still launching ships on the Wear in 1953 at the age of seventy-six. Very soon William and Ann’s daughters were to be married, all to men who made their livelihood from the sea: Mary to Richard Southern Burkett, a master mariner in 1855, Elizabeth to Thomas Pratt, the son of a boat-builder (though the marriage was brief because he died sometime before 1867) and the alliance between the Bartram and Naisby families was further cemented by the marriage of Ann to Robert Appleby Bartram, George’s son in 1859. The world of shipbuilding too had been expanding and consolidating for in 1853 the Wear Shipbuilders Association had been formed. William joined them in 1854 and was present at a dinner on January 5th at the ‘Crown and Anchor’ to celebrate the inauguration. Later both George Bartram and his son, Robert, became members and, eventually, Robert became Chairman. In 1856 William was on a committee to investigate how the Tyneside Shipbuilders' Association operated so that the Wearsiders could organise themselves on similar lines. In the same year, it was proposed that the Hylton shipbuilders should amalgamate with the Sunderland shipbuilders, a merge that could produce more solidarity and security for its members. For instance, they decided at a meeting in 1857 to standardise the wages for the men throughout the Wearside docks and proposed a reduction to four shilling and sixpence per day per man. By 1861 the Association was strong. William was now sixty-six but was still working at his shipbuilding though he seemed to attend more dinners held by the Association than meetings… Grandchildren were being produced by his daughters and he must have been flattered that two of his daughters called sons after him: William Naisby Burkett and William Naisby Bartram. He had fine portraits painted of himself and his wife and he was known as 'a prominent man of fine face and figure who looked well on the election hustings'. He had now built at least thirty-three ships and was due to launch another seventeen before his death. In Linton’s list of 1863, Reay and Naisby were on the west docks and Robson, Proudfoot and Claxhough were at the next yard to the east. William’s daughters were not blessed with the best of fortune. Mary Burkett lost her husband, Richard, at sea at the age of forty-seven, rather mysteriously, and the first mate brought the ship 'Brightest Star' back to port. She bore seven children, three of whom were to die under the age of four. Ann Bartram bore three children then died when her son Willy was only eight. Elizabeth Pratt lived to the age of fifty-nine but had been widowed early. William himself died at the age of seventy-one on Christmas day, 1871 and with his death the shipyard closed. Two years later, his wife Ann died at the same age and they were both buried in the Bishopwearmouth cemetery. From small beginnings, he had created a shipyard that had become much respected in its own time. He had launched at least fifty ships, mostly barques, and on his death left nearly £10,000 in his will for his family. He was one of the founder members of the Association of Wear Shipbuilders and had created an interest in shipbuilding that was to continue through another three generations of his own family. But what of his descendents? His son-in-law was to become one of the most prominent citizens of Sunderland and was eventually knighted for his services to the community. Four of his surviving grandsons were quite notable sportsmen: William Bartram became captain of the Humbledon Rugby XV and the star player for the side usually was another cousin, Harry Burkett – and the two cousins were the greatest of friends.. They both also competed in cycling competitions and in 1881 Harry Burkett and his brother, William Naisby Burkett, came first and second in an amateur prize over a distance of ninety miles. George Bartram, their cousin, was also interested in cycling – for twenty years he was President of the Sunderland Cycling Club. Harry Burkett was to crown his sporting career by being chosen for the County Durham Rugby XV in 1887. Harry started his career in Bartram’s yard with his cousin Willy but left after a few years to join the civil service in H M Customs and Excise though his brother Willy was in shipbuilding for the rest of his life. George and Will Bartram were taken into the firm by their father. He outlived them both and it was George’s sons, Robert Appleby and George Hylton who took over the reins after his death. In 1871 the firm, having built thirty-four barques and brigs at the South Hylton yard, moved to South Dock on the south side of Mounsey and Foster’s yard and Robert Bartram joined George Haswell in partnership until 1889. They built no wooden ships. George and John Haswell had read the future of shipping as early as 1866 when they built the 'Magnet' barque of iron and now nearly all their output was steam-powered. But between 1874 and 1876 Bartram and Haswell launched nine barques under sail: No Date Name Class Destiny Buyer Size 74 1874 Cumbria Barque Foundered 1889 P. Hick jun., Scarborough 100A1 75 1874 Clan MacLeod Barque still afloat!  T. Dunlop & Sons, Glasgow 100A1 79 1875 Eden Holme Barque Wrecked 1907 Hine Bros, Maryport 100A1 80 1875 Clan Campbell Barque Wrecked 1881 T. Dunlop & Sons, Glasgow 100A1 82 1875 Myrtle Holme (later Glimt) Barque War Loss 1915 Hine Bros, Maryport 100A1 83 1875 Castle Holme Barque Stranded 1924 Hine Bros, Maryport 100A1 85 1876 A.1. Barque Wrecked by ice 1876 P. Webster, Scarborough   86 1876 Arabella 1 (later Hamingja) Barque Wrecked 1912 T. E. Hick, Scarborough (later Knudsen) 100A1 87 1876 Mercia (later Bille, Santa Chiara, and Bravo) a partial history of the vessel can be read here. Barque Broken up 1935 P. Hick jun., Scarborough 100A1 Of the above, the Clan MacLeod was described as a smart iron barque which did good runs under her later name of James Craig. She was still on the registers in 1924 but dismantled in 1926. George Haswell retired in 1889 and Sir Robert Bartram was joined by his sons George and William Naisby and ran as Bartram and Sons, South Dock. In 1915 Sir Robert Bartram presented a window to St. Mary’s Church, Ford, South Hylton in memory of his father-in-law, William Naisby. Many of his descendants were at the ceremony Peter R Mayes April 1986