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Advance - a general history

Built at Sunderland.

Owners: 1841 Joseph Parkin, Hartlepool; 1847 William Merryweather & Daniel Ellwood, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1843-46 D Crofto; January 1847 William Foreman; November 1847 Charles Edward Brown.

Voyages: 1843-49 Sunderland to London.

Advance left Hartlepool on 9 January 1849 bound for London with a cargo of coal. On 11 January 1849 she struck on Middle Heaps & came off & went down in the Middle Deep in the Thames & sank in eight fathoms of water. Loss recorded by letter from owners to Hartlepool Customs House.

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