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Additional Particulars :	Wood brig fastened with iron bolts; some repairs 1847; part new keel 1849.

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Owners: January 1838 Henry Mitcalfe, Mary Ann & Emma Drury, Tynemouth; 1840 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Hartlepool; November 1844 purchased for £1,620 byThomas Meesom, Fenchurch St. London; by 1857 George Clark Smith & Samuel Osborne, South Shields.

Masters: 1838 James Weatherstone; 1840-41 Foster/Forster; 1842-44 Thompson; November 1844 Dickson/Dixon; 1846-48 J Wilson; 1848 George Colvin Scotland; 1849- 50 George Stephenson; 1850 John Mann; 1850-57 Henry Whitehead; 1858 Spence; 1858 Oliver; 1859 Richard Oaks/Oakes.

Voyages: April 1840 from Rotterdam with a cargo of wheat; 4 November 1840 from Dalhousie for Wyre Water with a cargo of timber she ran into a hurricane which swept her decks clean of everything, losing her foretop, sailyard, mainboom & trysail mast. She put into the Cove of Cork; 7 February 1841 from Liverpool for Newcastle-on-Tyne with a cargo of salt in passing Luggan Point during a heavy gale she struck on a sunken rock which was uncharted. She was re-floated after discharging some of her cargo; 1843-44 Clyde for Toulon 10 January 1845 ashore on Scroby Sand, Great Yarmouth. She was re-floated after some of her cargo was jettisoned; 3 June 1848 Ann Emma was advertised for sale by private contract.

Bound from Shields for London with a crew of eight Ann Emma drove ashore near Southwold & became a wreck on 30 October 1859 during a fierce gale. The crew were saved by Southwold beachmen using a rope.

Crew October 1859: John Garbutt, Joseph Gibson.

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Union Shipping Co.

Although formed in 1838 with a capital of £46,770 some of her vessels were purchased in 1837. This would probably have been at the latter end of the year. The Company went into liquidation in 1845.

The Hartlepool Union Shipping Company "was established for the purpose of purchasing or building ships or vessels, to be employed in the coal or other trades, from Hartlepool or other ports and places, as the committee may order and direct."

The vessels were registered in the names of six of the co-partners as trustees. They were: George Blakelock; Cuthbert Sharp (historian & shipowner, Hartlepool); Thomas Rowell (bank agent, Hartlepool); William Lisle (miller of Middleton-mills, Hartlepool); George Peacock (farmer Stockton-on-Tees); Ralph Walker (farmer, Stranton) & Stephen Horner.

The committee for the first year was formed of the following: John Burrell; John Wood; Robert Henry Allan (solicitor); George Blakelock; Percival Forster; Cuthbert Sharp; John Wells; William Lisle; William Walden; Stephen Horner; George Sheraton; James Findlay; William Sotheran; Thomas Rowell & John Sharp.

Fleet list (giving life and cost of vessel):

Agility 1834-1871 £1800

Albatross 1837-1864 £2285

Ann Emma 1838-1859 £2800

Anne Maria 1829-1850 £1850

City of Durham 1838-1843 £2900

Commodore 1838-1875

Eliza Liddle 1834-1847 £2500

Friendship 1837-1871 £2360

Gipsy 1837-1863 £2500

Harmonious 1837-1858 £2560

Hart 1838-1870 £2450

Hope 1834-1879

Isabella Wood 1840-1853

John Burrell 1838-1852 £2700

Margarets 1837-1875 £2950

Queen 1837-1865 £2650

Rosa 1837-1866 £2400

Saladin 1838-1845

Thomas Wood 1838-1852

Union 1838-1840 £3050

William Broderick 1836-1868 £2500

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