Year |
Name |
Owner |
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1890 | Glenisle | Livingston, Conner & Co. | |
1900 | Villalegre | Cia Avelesina de Nav |
On a voyage from Middlesbrough for Genoa Villalegre was in collision with an abandoned hulk & foundered 20 miles east of Aveiro, Portugal on 7 March 1905. The vessel was insured for £20,500. Some of the crew were lost. Master - M.A. Diaz.
Robert Livingston and George Steel traded as managers and shipbrokers under the title of G. Steel & Co. The partnership was dissolved in April 1889 with George carrying on trading as G. Steel & Co. In the same year Robert Livingston and Leonard Richard Conner went into partnership as Livingston, Conner & Co. R. Livingston & Co., and L.R. Conner & Co., were founded in 1899 with offices at Church Street, West Hartlepool with the partnership of Livingston, Conner & Co., officially dissolved in July 1900. L.R. Conner & Co. ceased trading in 1916.
Family History:
Leonard Richard Conner was born in c1842 at Greenwich. He married Sarah in 1865 and, by 1881, was living at Stranton with his wife & six children. By the following decade the family were living in Clifton Avenue, West Hartlepool. He died at Hartlepool on 25 July 1918. In his will he left £63, 792.
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Completed January 1891; Official No. 98499: Code Letters MBLR.
Owners: 1891 Livingston, Conner & Co, West Hartlepool: 1900 Cia Avilisena de Nav (M Carrefio) Gijon, Spain-renamed Villalegre
Masters: 1891-92 MJW Wright: 1894-97 G Morris: 1893-1900 G Morris: 1904-05 MA Diaz.
Voyages: Bound from Galveston for Manchester with a cargo of raw cotton & a crew of 19 Glenisle had her boats smashed & other damage during a Force 12 westerly gale in the North Atlantic on 9 January 1894. One life lost: February 1904 the Villalegre went ashore & was stranded. It was thought she would become a wreck but was refloated.
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