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Falcon - a general history

Official No. 774: Code Letters HFGP.

Owners: 1848-53 Hamilton, London; 1854 Turock, London; 1855-59 George Pyman (ship chandler) John Smurthwaite (ship smith) Thomas Hood (pilot) & Francis English, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1848 Hodges; 1850-53 Parnell; 1854 May; 1855-59 Charles Smith.

Voyages: 1848 London for Africa; June1858 arrived Swinemunde from Hartlepool; 14 April 1859 left Hartlepool for Malneo.

Crew 1856;

Exley, William, seaman

Bound from Clackmannan for Cronstadt Falcon was lost on Stoneskar near Reval in the Baltic Sea on 14 October 1859.  (Hartlepool Customs House Register gives date as 6 October with a question mark).

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