Length (feet) : | 55.6 |
Breadth (feet) : | 19.0 |
Depth (feet): | 7.3 |
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) : | 55 |
Net Registered Tonnage (n.r.t.) : | |
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Additional Particulars : | Carvel built wood schooner; 2 masts. |
Official No. 20569; Code Letters NBRG.
Owners: W Newstead Field (Cromer) Lowestoft; 1866-68 W Newstead Field (Cromer) & William Payne (Runton St, Cromer) Lowestoft; 1871-73 Nathanial Newstead Field (Runton, Cromer) & William Payne, Lowestoft; 1877-83 M Field (Runton) & Nathaniel Newstead Field (Cromer) Lowestoft; 1888 William Juniper (Mundesley) & Austin Blythe (West Cliff, Cromer) Lowestoft; 1891 Austin Blythe (Cromer) Lowestoft; 1896 Thomas Danby (Dock Office Buildings, Hartlepool) Lowestoft; 1898 John Danby (Hartlepool) Lowestoft; 1901 John Danby & Sons (Hartlepool) Lowestoft; 1903-20 Thomas B Keedy (Nelson’s Bank, South Shields) Lowestoft.
Masters: 1859-76 William Payne (b. Cromer 1813, C.N. 51849); 1877-95 Austin Blythe; 1896-97 Audas.
She plied mainly from Hartlepool & Middlesbrough down the east coast with coal.
Ellis was recorded as being wrecked at Jarrow Slake in November 1920, having given service for a total of 62 years.
British register closed 1920 (BT TNA Catalogue 110/297/28 National Archives Kew)
More detail »Two schooners on Cromer Beach c1870. In the foreground is the Commerce, 61 tons, built Stockton-on-Tees 1846. Behind is the Ellis, 54 tons, built Hartlepool 1858. Both vessels appear to be stranded.
There are at least six horses just visible in the image & people aboard the vessels. The horses are probably being used to discharge the cargo of coal.
The Ellis traded between Hartlepool & Cromer on a regular basis, mainly with coal.
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