Hartlepool History Then & Now

Tythonus - a general history

Completed August 1862; Official No. 44702; Code Letters TWGC.

Owners: J Smurthwaite & Co, Sunderland; 1865 Stuart & Co,., Liverpool; 1879 Stuart & Douglas, Liverpool; 1884 Gillison & Chadwick, Liverpool; 1897 Aktieselskabet Tythonus (Harald Haslum) Moss, Norway; 1900 Aktieselskabet Tythonus (Bendix J. Grefstad) Grimstad, Norway.

Masters: 1862-65 Andrews; 1865 Alexander; 1866 Allerby; 1866 Alexander; 1867-68 Mackay; 1869 Green; 1870-77 Andrews; 1877 Rabreau; 1878-81 Cutting; 1882-85 W Hewson; 1886-93 H Lambert; 1893-95 George Davis; 1895-98 Spurr; 1899-1900 Brennildsen; 1901 T Thorsen.

Miscellaneous: 12 October 1862 Thomas Harwick, seaman, fell from the yard to the deck & was killed. He was buried at sea; December 1873 Thomas Darcey, seaman, stabbed William Williams the chief officer of the Tythonus.

Voyages: 1873 sailed for India; January 1882 London to Auckland; 11 October 1882 left London with 103 passengers arrived Auckland 3 February 1883; 18 September 1900 from Cardiff for Coquimbo.

Bound from Fleetwood for Valparaiso the Tythonus was abandoned on fire 120 miles from Montevideo in October 1901. The barque James H Hanlen picked up the crew.

Crew December 1873:

Andrews, master

Darcey, Thomas, seaman

Miller, Henry, boatswain

Williams, William chief officer