Troqueer - a general history

Completed August 1883; Official No. 86962: Code Letters HVWP.

Owners: 1883 George Steel (Robert Livingstone, manager), West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1883-85 Watson: 1885 George Marchant: 1886 George Heslop.

Voyages: 19 May 1885 struck on a rock at Finnesgrunde near Gefle & was abandoned by the crew. The following day she was got off by tugs & towed to Gefle; January 1886 the master, George Marchant, was fined for overloading his vessel.

Troqueer left Alexandria on 9 February 1886 in water ballast bound for Jaffa. On 11 February from Jaffa she received orders to sail to Gaza arriving on 12 February. She took on a cargo of 700 tons of wheat but her leaving was delayed because of heavy weather & eventually she sailed on 4 March with a crew of 21. Not far distant from the port she had left on the coast of Syria she struck on a bank the same day & became a total wreck by 12 March 1886. No lives lost.

At the Board of Trade inquiry held at Middlesbrough the master, George Heslop,  was found to blame for the casualty& his certificate was suspended for three months.

Crew May 1885:

Angells, John, fireman

Burnie, S, able seaman

Campbell, W, fireman

Carrick, 1^st engineer

Edwards, F, donkeyman

Ericksen, JF, able seaman

Gallagher, P, fireman

Hall, W, 2^nd engineer

Hard, William, fireman

Hoffman, J, able seaman

Lock, W, steward

Nyburg, mate

Potter, W, fireman

Powell, S, cook

Riley, Edward, fireman

Russell, able seaman

Turner, D, able seaman

Watson, master, Seaham Harbour

Wellings, Thomas, boatswain

Wilson, Thomas, fireman

Wisk, able seaman

Crew February 1886:

Anderson, Thomas, able seaman

Nyberg, Eric, mate

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