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Margaret - a general history

Unknown place & date of build: Official No. 5253: Code Letters JGVD: condemed as a Prize in the British & Brazilian Court at Sierra Leone on 14 September 1839 for breach of the laws by being used in the slave trade.

Owners: Horatio Nelson, Limehouse , Middlesex; August 1845 Thomas Richardson, Hartlepool; September 1845 William George Jackson, Hartlepool; by 1856 John Coverdale, George Robinson & Thomas Day, Hartlepool; March 1857 John Coverdale & Thomas Day, Hartlepool; August 1857 John Coverdale & Jonathan Lister, Hartlepool; May 1859 John Coverdale, Thomas Day, Jonathan Lister & William Laidler, Hartlepool.

Masters: October 1845-48 Robert Fairless; January 1850 Fletcher Musgrave; April 1850 John Naylor; January 1853 George Hewison; June 1854 John Cain; November 1854 James Shadforth; 1855 George Hewison; 1864 George Wood.

Bound from London for Hartlepool with a valuable cargo which included gunpowder for a West Hartlepool firm Margaret sank after a collision with the Glasgow & London steamer Emma off Southwold on 8 December 1864 with the loss of two Hartlepool seamen. The vessel was insured with the local clubs.

Lives lost December 1864;

Hammond, Francis, seaman, Hartlepool

Robinson, John, seaman, Hartlepool

 

 

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