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Earl of Sunderland - a general history

Built at Seaham: Official No. 5218: Code Letters JGRT.

Owners: 1844 Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1854 RM & J Gray & Co (Blyth) Shields; 1864 John Dixon & Co (Blyth) Shields; 1874-76 John Coverdale, Hartlepool; by 1878 Joseph Peacock (Alma Place) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1851 G Gray; 1854 Matthew Henry Richardson (C.N. 3807 Sunderland 1852); 1856-62 G Gray; 1863 R Stannard; 1864-71 J Woods; 1872 Robinson; 1880 J Peacock.

February 1872 to 1877 insured with the Hartlepool Mutual Marine Insurance Association for £400-value £600.

Bound from London for Middlesbrough with a cargo of loam & a crew of six Earl of Sunderland was wrecked during a fierce storm at Cleethorpes beach, River Humber on 29 October 1880.

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