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Shipwrecks at Hartlepool - 1898

A compilation of documentary accounts - many from local newspapers - relating to shipwrecks and strandings at Hartlepool in 1898:

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, Monday, March 28th, 1898:
BRIGANTINE ASHORE AT WEST HARTLEPOOL. Just before high-water yesterday afternoon several vessels made for the harbour at Hartlepool. Three of them, with the assistance of tugs, managed to get safely in, but the Norwegian brigantine Baltic got too far to the southward, and was seen drifting under the railway wall of West Hartlepool. A tremendous sea was running, and the vessel drove within 150 yards of the wall.

The lifeboat Forester was launched from the Stranton beach, and made an attempt to get up, and in the meantime the rocket apparatus was got to work, and after one or two attempts threw a line right over the ship. At last the crew, seven in number, were safely landed. Shortly afterwards a Norwegian vessel, the Wilfred, drove ashore, and the crew of eight were landed by the rocket apparatus from Seaton Carew. The storm at West Hartlepool shows signs of abating.

HARTLEPOOL VESSEL LOST. The Beaconsfield, owned by Messrs. Danby and Son, West Hartlepool, was bound for that port from West Mersea. On Friday, on the full tide and in the gale, she drifted and became a total wreck.

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