Owners: Luke & George Blumer, Hartlepool.
Masters: 1849 Richard Hubbuck/Habbad; September 1850-53 George Anson Clarke (C.N. 2654 Yarmouth 1850); February 1853 Alexander S Salter (C.N. 100190 Leith 1857); August 1853 William Pitt Pelham.
Miscellaneous: 16 August 1849 while Gladiator was waiting to leave Hartlepool the carpenter died of cholera.
Voyages: 1850-51 Hartlepool for Archangel; 1852 Hartlepool for the Mediterranean; 1853 Glasgow for Montreal.
Bound from Montreal for Gloucester Gladiator was abandoned about 500 miles from Scilly in 47N/16W on 23 December 1853 & foundered three hours later. The master, crew of ten & the steward’s wife were saved by the vessel Eleanora & landed at Queenstown. Loss recorded in a letter to Hartlepool HM Customs from Luke Blumer, owner.
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Blumer's shipyard c1858
