Jane Cory

Completed November 1870; Official No. 65033; Code Letters WQGK; Code Letters JGHQ.
Owners: 1870 Ebenezer Cory & Co. Hartlepool; 1874 Cory, Lohden & Co. West Hartlepool; 1882 E. Cory & Co. West Hartlepool; 1887 R. Irvine junior (Jackson Bros. & Cory) West Hartlepool; 1890 Jackson Bros. & Cory (George Jackson, Crosby Square, London) West Hartlepool; 1895 J. Millar, Gothenburg-renamed Jane; 1910 William Millar, Gothenburg.

Masters: 1870-72 Brown; 1872-74 Hardcastle; 1874-80 J Garrick; 1881-87 Henry Webber; 1887-88 Matthew Peacock; 1888-89 Martin; 1890-93 RS Thompson; 1894-96 J Gibson; 1896-97 EGT Elzvik; 1898-1907 AO Nilsson; 1907-09 A Olsson; 1916 Wilhelm Johansson; 1923 Osterman.

Miscellaneous: In 1914 while Jane was at St Nazaire a Russian crewman fatally stabbed a German crewman. The perpetrator was held at St Nazaire.
Voyages: 3 December 1870 went ashore on Vogel Sands & was refloated; 30 August 1871 arrived Gravesend from Riga; 6 June 1872 arrived Genoa from Newcastle; from Carthegena for London on 12 February 1873 she called at Gibraltar to replenish her coal & was towed back from Cape Spartel with damage. Part of her cargo was fruit which was transferred to another steamer. After being repaired she loaded with linseed oil & proceeded; 23 November 1877 arrived Gravesend from Riga; 18 April 1880 docked at Wismar; 22 February 1881 arrived Dartmouth from Bilbao; from Hartlepool for Riga with sleepers at the end of November 1881 she grounded at Oland & was leaky so put into Copenhagen for repairs; 29 August 1897 arrived Bristol from Dalbeattie; October 1883 bound from Soderhamn for Dover with planks Jane Cory collided with the Norwegian steamer Niord in Copenhagen Roads. Both vessels were badly damaged; 5 June 1885 arrived Grimsby from Riga; 28 November 1886 from Drontheim for Antwerp she was towed back with a broken piston rod & smashed cylinder cover; 12 August 1887 from Hartlepool for Wismar with coal was towed into the Tyne leaky; 7 March 1889 arrived Cardiff from Gibraltar.

On a voyage from Balta Sound to Lerwick with 473 barrels of herring & a crew of 14 (including a female stewardess) the Jane went ashore at the north end of Linga at the south entrance to Bluemull Sound on 19 July 1923. She re-floated & then stranded again on Sound Guney & sank in deep water. All her crew were saved. The wreck has been identified & her bell & several of her portholes are now in the Shetland Museum at Lerwick.