Hewson 1843-1875
Built by Kirkbride & Carruthers, Sunderland: Official No. 15419: Code Letters LSFV: one deck; two masts; square stern; carvel built wood brig felt sheathed in zinc; 233g; 87.2 x 25.7 x 15.2; repairs to damage 1846; new deck & some repairs 1850; some repairs 1852.
Owners:
July 1843 Shallet Hewson, North Shields
November 1854 David Alfred Hewson & George Tweedy Robson (died September 1857) North Shields 1857 Shallett Hewson & David Alfred Hewson (died January 1864) North Shields
January 1864 Thomas Oliver, South Shields
March 1865 Elizabeth Ruddock & William Willis (master mariner) Hartlepool
1866 William George Jackson (grocer) Hartlepool
February 1869 Daniel Robinson (master mariner) Hartlepool
1869 Daniel Robinson & Elizabeth Ruddock, Hartlepool
1870 Elizabeth Ruddock & Thomas Henry Cornforth (painter) Hartlepool
June 1872 Joseph Henry Atley, Hartlepool
October 1872 Joseph Henry Atley, Thomas Appleby, Robert Ropner & John Callender, Hartlepool.
Masters: July 1843 Shallet Hewson; August 1843 David Alfred Hewson; July 1852 Samuel Nichols; July 1852 John Middleton; 1854-56 David Alfred Hewson; 1853-62 John Lonsdale; 1874 Smith; 1875 J McDowell.
Voyages: 1856 Shields for the Baltic; 31 August 1865 from Fredrickshaven for Hartlepool she was stranded at Kalbaden in the Baltic & was abandoned. She was eventually re-floated & taken to Ekenas, was repaired & re-registered in 1866; 25 March 1874 advertised for sale by auction at the King’s Head Hotel, Hartlepool.
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.
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