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Eagle - a general history

Built by Hull & Sikes, Sunderland: Official No. 32891: Code Letters RCBQ.

Owners: October 1839 John Dobbins (Bishopwearmouth) George & Matthew Lamb (Monkwearmouth) Sunderland; December 1839 William Elliott & John Patton (North Shields) William Gillepsy, Joseph Nelson, John Grahamsley, Mary Hudson (Felton) George Hudson (London) & Robert Stafford (Newcastle-on-Tyne) South Shields; August 1860 John Short, North Shields; January 1865 John Coverdale, Hartlepool; February 1865 John Coverdale, William Laidler & William Williamson, Hartlepool.

Masters: October 1839 Robert Dixon; December 1839 William Elliott; February 1840 Thomas Elsdon Grigs; March 1841 William Patterson; March 1852 Edward Cockburn; March 1853-55 Edward Gascoyne; 1856 W Gray; 1857 R Crass; 1858-60 W Scott; 1861 T Sharpe; 1865 Todd.

Voyages: 1857 Shields for America; 1858-60 Shields for the Mediterranian; 1861-68 Shields for France.

Bound from Wyborg for Gosport with a cargo of timber & a crew of eight Eagle went ashore on Corton Sands near Yarmouth on 4 December 1865. The crew were saved. She was got off, towed into harbour, dismantled & sold as a wreck at Lowestoft on 18 January 1866.

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