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Madonna - a general history

Built 1833 at Greenock, Renfrewshire: Official No. 23527: Code Letters NSBK.

Owners: 1833 Stewart & Co, Greenock; James Caldwell, Greenock; September 1848 Nathaniel Kearsley (Hartlepool) George Smith (Ingelby Greenhow) & William Williamson (blacksmith, Great Ayton) Hartlepool; 1850 William Williamson, Mary Kearsley & George Smith, Hartlepool; October 1852 John Coverdale, Mary Kearsley (widow) & William Williamson (Great Ayton), Hartlepool.

Masters: 1834-37 A Smith; 1847 J Caldwell; 1848 Nathaniel Kearsley; December 1848 Andrew Smith; April 1849 Christopher Smith; 1849-50 Kearsley; 1850 James Balfour; October 1852 John Coverdale; 1852 Edmund Stephenson; June 1853 John Ebblewhite; August 1853 John Coverdale; June 1854 Jacob Todd; September 1854 John Coverdale; January 1855 William Race; 1856 E Stephenson; 1863 Clarke.

Insured with Hartlepool Mutual Marine Association in 1854-55.

Voyages: 1835 The Clyde for Barbados; 1852-53 Hartlepool for London; from Cronstadt with a cargo of deals she shipped a heavy sea near Norway on 2 October 1860. She put into Poole reporting that a seaman, Jacob de Jager or Isackson, was washed overboard & drowned.

Bound from Sundswall for Hartlepool Madonna was abandoned in a sinking condition during a severe gale in the North Sea on 7 November 1863. The crew were picked up by the Janets & landed at Copenhagen.

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