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May I suggest that you navigate the site re Sunderland data via the
index on page 001.
Do you want to make a comment? A site guestbook is here. Test.
A list of the Sunderland built vessels referenced in these pages is at the top of page
040.
A list of the Sunderland shipbuilders referenced in these pages is a little
lower on page
040.
Copyright?
Corrections in any of the
material which follows, however tiny,
would be most
welcome. And
additions, of course!
JAMES LEITHEAD & CO. & JAMES LEITHEAD
ARROW LEITHEAD (it would seem that references to Aaron Leithead are in error & mean Arrow)
ANDREW LEITHEAD
VESSELS BUILT BY 'LEITHEAD'
The 'Leithead's' shipyard listing can be found here.
A 'Leithead' build list.
The information which follows mainly originates from the
4 pages of the 'Corder Manuscripts' that relate to
the Leithead's. The
Corder Manuscripts, which comprise many volumes of hand written data assembled
over a lifetime by James
W. (Watson) Corder (1867/1953), are held in the archives of the Sunderland
Central Library or maybe at the Local Studies
Centre there. I am advised that binders of page copies are available for viewing
by library visitors.
Understanding Corder's hand-writing can at times be difficult!
The data has already been refined, & surely will be further refined in the future, perhaps in relationship to
data recorded in Lloyd's Registers or from other sources. Corrections & additions are invited.
Two pages of the manuscripts are devoted to James Leithead, while a single page is devoted to each of Arrow & Andrew Leithead
- in each case with the ships that they built - you can read the four
'Corder' pages in question here -
1, 2,
3 & 4. I
would like to think that James Corder
would have wished his research to be made widely available through this page.
The
numbering at left below is the webmaster's numbering. No
official lists would seem to exist. And beware! I have amended the Corder sequence so
the vessels are in alphabetic order within each year - so you and I can find them easily. And
some of the detail has
already been modified to reflect data in Lloyd's Registers, (shown in brackets) & at
least one additional
vessel, the William, has been included also.
You can view the applicable editions of Lloyd's Register via this link.
VESSELS BUILT BY 'JAMES LEITHEAD & CO.' LATER JAMES LEITHEAD, AT LOW STREET, SUNDERLAND (15 known)
Per Corder:- in 1827 James Leithead went into business at Low
Street with Wilton Chilton & with Marshall Bowey. The arrangement only lasted a
short time. By 1829 Chilton was elsewhere on his own. Corder indicates that he
did not know where Bowey went to. So from about 1829, James Leithead was on his
own.
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# |
Name |
Tonnage |
Launched |
Rig |
Initial owner |
Of |
1 |
Acorn |
201 |
?????1827 |
snow |
John Ranson & Jos. Andrews (Wilkinson & Co.) |
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2 |
Catherine & Hannah |
239 |
?????1827 |
|
William Dunn |
Sunderland |
3 |
Oak |
222 |
?????1827 |
|
Will Dawson (Dawson & Co.) |
Bishopwearmouth |
4 |
Isabella |
199 |
?????1828 |
brig |
John Huseler? & Elliott (J. Milburn & Co.) |
|
5 |
Gazelle |
210/221 |
?????1829 |
snow |
W. Nealands Robson (W. Robson) |
Monkwearmouth |
6 |
Medina |
204 |
?????1829 |
snow |
Thos. Wilkinson (Wilkinson & Co.) |
Bishopwearmouth |
7 |
Thomas & Mary |
224 |
?????1830 |
|
Thomas Thompson |
Monkwearmouth Lost 1845 |
8 |
Vigilant |
237 |
?????1830 |
|
Hunter & Sherlock (Hunter & Co.) |
|
9 |
Dart |
244 |
?????1831 |
snow |
Hoon family (Hoon & Co.) |
Bishopwearmouth |
10 |
John & Ann? |
111 |
?????1831 |
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John Ridley |
Monkwearmouth |
11 |
Courier |
245 |
?????1832 |
|
Will Herring |
Monkwearmouth Lost 1843 |
12 |
Medway |
211 |
?????1832 |
snow |
Thos. Wilkinson (Andrews) |
Bishopwearmouth |
13 |
Princess Victoria |
235 |
?????1832 |
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Hugh Panlon? |
? Lost 1832 |
14 |
Shannon |
313 |
?????1832 |
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Horn & Scott (Horn & Co.) |
Bishopwearmouth |
15 |
Robert & Margaret |
223 |
?????1833 |
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Spence & Henderson |
Bishopwearmouth & Newcastle Lost 1860 |
There would appear to be no vessels launched in 1834 as the move
of the shipyard to North Sands was accomplished.
VESSELS BUILT BY 'JAMES LEITHEAD & CO.' AT NORTH SANDS, SUNDERLAND (24 known)
& maybe from 1844 at Deptford & from 1847 at Pallion. However, Corder
suspected that the Deptford & Pallion yards were one and the same yard.
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# |
Name |
Tonnage |
Launched |
Rig |
Initial owner |
Of |
16 |
Cynosure |
327 |
?????1835 |
barque |
John & Jane Hay, ropemakers (Hay & Son) |
Monkwearmouth |
17 |
Jabez? |
250 |
?????1835 |
|
Joseph Spence |
Bishopwearmouth |
18 |
Globe |
376/439 |
?????1836 |
barque |
Ord & Bell (J. Allan) |
Bishopwearmouth |
19 |
Jessie |
175 |
?????1836 |
|
Will Woods |
Newcastle |
20 |
Midge |
88 |
?????1836 |
schooner |
Joseph Brough |
Forfar |
21 |
Erin |
200/197 |
?????1837 |
snow |
Thos Hood Henderson (M'Gavin of Dundee) |
Newcastle |
22 |
Marico |
264 |
?????1837 |
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John & Rowland Webster |
Bishopwearmouth |
23 |
Pet |
186 1/2 |
?????1837 |
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Will Woods |
Newcastle |
24 |
Regina |
205/194 |
?????1837 |
snow |
Humphrey Middleton (Middleton) |
Bishopwearmouth, wreck in 1841 |
25 |
Sarah |
132/110 |
?????1837 |
schooner |
James Leithead (Walford & Co.) |
Deptford |
26 |
Andrews |
239 |
?????1838 |
snow |
Joseph Andrews, grocer (Andrews) |
lost 1846 |
27 |
Ann |
175 |
?????1838 |
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Humphrey Middleton |
Bishopwearmouth |
28 |
Joseph |
201/198 |
?????1838 |
snow |
Humphrey Middleton (Middlton) |
lost 1841 |
29 |
Wilsons |
228/223 |
?????1838 |
snow |
John Hunter (Hunter) |
Bishopwearmouth |
30 |
Elizabeths |
228/195 |
?????1839 |
snow |
Jos Andrews & others (Andrews) |
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31 |
Lena |
268/299 |
?????1839 |
snow |
James Leithead & others (Woods & Co.) |
|
32 |
Martha |
262 |
?????1839 |
snow |
James Leithead & others (Leithead) |
Deptford |
33 |
Cossack |
241/233 |
?????1840 |
snow |
John Webster (J.Webster) |
Bishopwearmouth |
34 |
Elizabeth & Sarah |
201/175 |
?????1840 |
snow |
James Leithead, (Leithead) to Danson by 1851 |
Deptford |
35 |
Janes |
155/121 |
?????1841 |
schooner |
James Leithead (Leithead) |
Pallion |
36 |
Breeze |
211 |
?????1845 |
snow |
Richard White (White & Co.) |
Bishopwearmouth |
37 |
Trafalgar |
739 |
?????1845 |
barque |
Duncan Dunbar |
London |
38 |
Unknown name |
743 |
?????1847 |
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39 |
Victory |
579 |
?????1847 |
barque |
Wilson, to Fenwick 1851 |
London |
40 |
Wellington |
480/588 |
?????1847 |
barque |
Simpson, to Fenwick 1851 |
London |
Corder notes that in 1841 the yard 'closed apparently
during the slump'. Re the last three items, Corder notes:- These quite a
different class from the earlier records. did he build other not recap here.
I can trace no more by James.
VESSELS BUILT BY ARROW LEITHEAD - AT PALLION - (12 so far)
There is a gap of two years between James & above (i.e.
Arrow). Corder notes:- in this year (1850) Arrow & Andrew launched a
large boat & then separated.
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# |
Name |
Tonnage |
Launched |
Rig |
Initial owner |
Of |
41 |
Cambodia |
806/914 |
?????1850 |
ship |
John Hay |
Sunderland |
42 |
name illegible |
|
?????1851 |
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|
Sunderland |
43 |
Sarah Margaret |
240/232 |
?????1851 |
snow |
J. Wright to Skerry |
Whitby |
44 |
William |
590/703 |
?????1852 |
ship |
John Hay, but almost immediately Wade & Co. |
Sunderland then London |
45 |
Calabar |
665/754 |
?????1853 |
ship |
John Hay |
Bishopwearmouth |
46 |
Eden |
246 |
?????1854 |
snow |
James Hay (John Hay) |
|
47 |
Sebastapol |
804/859 |
?????1854 |
ship |
Tweddel |
South Shields |
48 |
Sultana |
722/775 |
?????1854 |
ship |
Duncan Dunbar (Hdgkns'n) |
London |
49 |
Coringa |
867/906 |
?????1855 |
ship |
John Hay |
Sunderland |
Corder notes:- These are the highest class of that day.
Must have been good for Dunbar to take one for his Blackwall & India fleet.
50 |
Dee |
177 |
?????1857 |
snow |
G. Leslie |
Aberdeen |
51 |
Neda |
374 |
?????1857 |
barque |
Thompson |
Newcastle |
52 |
Waterlily |
249 |
?????1857 |
snow |
Russell (Russell & Co.) |
South Shields |
Corder notes:- These much smaller & lower class & it looks
as if something had gone wrong. I expect the Hays who took his boats above had
financed him & did not like the position as timber merchants but have as yet no
detail & can trace nothing further. He is not a subscriber to the association in
1857 & may have closed in the slack time of that year.
VESSELS BUILT BY ANDREW LEITHEAD - AT SOUTHWICK? - (3 so far)
Corder notes:- given as cousin of Arrow but according to
my scraps of a pedigree was only 13 in 1850 & I think it surely was his father
Andrew who joined Arrow his nephew in that year - on his own by 1851.
Luke Crown calls the Low Southwick man Arrow but certainly an error for Andrew.
The yard lay next above Willoughby
who was on W of Attwood's glass works.
"He launched some good ships" but I can find very few records in 1851 & '52 - nothing in Marwood 1854. I expect Crown mixed the two yards up in his recollections.
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# |
Name |
Tonnage |
Launched |
Rig |
Initial owner |
Of |
53 |
Margarets |
239 |
?????1851 |
brig |
Will Middleton |
Sunderland |
54 |
Colinda |
463/581 |
?????1852 |
barque |
John Hay (Wm. Hay) |
Bishopwearmouth |
55 |
Morris |
218/201 |
?????1852 |
snow |
James Hay (J. Hay) |
Sunderland |
Corder notes:- As is noted under Arrow it looks as if the
Hays financed, took over the last two boats & closed them down. My informant
James son of Andrew Jr. might have been able to clear this up but perhaps did
not wish to. He promised further details but I have not seen or heard from him
since. Such words were written by Corder in Oct. 1936.
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index on page 001.
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