Year |
Name |
Owner |
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1876 | Winthorpe | Appleby & Co. |
Wrecked on Meixido Rocks, 12 miles off Muros, Spain on 5th August 1899. All the crew were picked up & landed at Muros. She was on voyage from Huelva for Antwerp with a cargo of Manganese ore & a total crew of 19. Master E.J. Minter.
In 1866, Thomas Appleby and Robert Ropner founded the shipping company of Appleby, Ropner & Co. This partnership was dissolved in 1874, with each partner establishing their own companies: T. Appleby & Co., and R. Ropner & Co.
The vessels listed below under ship are those that were built at West Hartlepool and those that were built elsewhere are listed under a general history.
Family History:
Thomas Appleby was born at Garmondsway, Durham in 1839 to parents John (farmer) and Elizabeth Davison (nee Richardson) Appleby. He married Harriet Wearmouth at Pittington on 9th December 1868. In 1871 the family were living at Seaton Carew. By 1881 the couple were living at Ashfield House, Greatham with their five children. Harriet died in December 1904.
Thomas was chairman of the Hartlepool Gas Company, president of the South East Durham Conservative Association and a J.P.
Thomas died at Greatham aged 69 on 24th November 1909 leaving effects of £116,954.
More detail »Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, Wednesday, Agust 16th, 1898:
ANOTHER WEST HARTLEPOOL STEAMER LOST. Several of the crew of the West Hartlepool steamer Winthorpe arrived at Shields yesterday, and reported the wreck of that vessel off Cape Finisterre whilst on a voyage from Huelva to Antwerp.
The Winthorpe struck a supposed submerged rock, and commenced to sink directly. The boats had to be launched as quickly as possible, the forward part of the steamer was under water. The crew succeeded making their escape within ten minutes from time the vessel struck.