Breeze - general history

Completed January 1875;  Official No. 67557: Code Letters WSRN:

Owners: 1874 Thomas Appleby & Co. (Commercial Buildings) West Hartlepool: 1892 C.A. Forslind, Norway; 1892 Acties Bris (F. Ohlsen) Laurvig, Norway-renamed Bris

Masters: 1874-77 John Robert Holman (CC No. 90620): 1880 W Holman: 1881 Reynolds: 1882 W Holman: 1883 I Lewis: 1884-85 TR Keen: 1886-92 TH Allen: 1895-97 J Hummel: 1899-1903 C Horgen: 1904 E Tronsen.

Voyages: On her trial trip with about 30 people aboard, some putting the finishing touches to the vessel, under the command of masters Bowden & John Holman during heavy snow squalls Breeze struck the South Pier causing thousands of pounds worth of damage. She was then driven onto the Black Middens at Tynemouth & stranded on 11 December 1874. No lives lost: In December 1877 Breeze was in two collisions. Passing Lowestoft from Antwerp she collided with the Hanoverian galliot, Orient, which was bound for London with potatoes. Before the latter vessel sank the crew were taken off by the Breeze. On the same night she collided with the Seaham of Goole which also sank but not before her crew were taken off.

On a voyage from Swansea for Stettin with a cargo of coal Bris sank after a collision with the Swedish steamer Emma Hammar off Paternoster Rocks on the west coast of Sweden on 17 April 1904.

Crew trial trip 1874:

Anderson, George, chief engineer; Bowden, master; Burns, John, Tyne pilot; Holman, John, master; Lambert, Samuel, boatswain; Lawer, William, seaman; Moore, Thomas, rigger; Storey, John, able seaman.

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