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Standard - a general history

Official No. 72647; Code Letters PFHK.

Owners: 1875 William Henry Wise & Son, Hartlepool; 1880 William Gray & Co, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1875-76 Blacklin; 1877-79 North; 1880-85 Harry Darnell (C.N.90627 Liverpool 1873).

Standard left Boston USA on 21 January 1885 with a cargo of 1,812 tons, chiefly grain, 322 tons of bunker coal & a crew of 24 bound for London. On 25 January she was sighted in 42.37N/51W steaming east by the SS Scythia & was never seen again. The inquiry received evidence from the master of the SS Ripon City that, on leaving New York, they had come upon large fields of ice. The master of SS Durham City had been bound to Boston & had experienced the worst gale he had ever encountered in the Atlantic. It was concluded in the Board of Trade Wreck Report, when the case was heard at West Hartlepool in July 1885, that Standard must have been lost by one of these means. She was posted as missing in April 1885.


Lives lost January 1885:

Banks, A

Barber, H, donkeyman

Bearham, T, cook, South Shields

Blackburn, T

Carr, J, 3rd engineer, Blyth

Clark, J, able seaman

Darnell, Harry, master, b. 1848 Yarmouth, resided Lowestoft

Day, A, 1st engineer, Dundee

Elliott, J, fireman, West Hartlepool

Gough, S, fireman, West Hartlepool

Horsley, G, able seaman, Hartlepool

Howell, JG, able seaman

Kirton, JW, 1st mate, Manchester

Lawson, R, 2nd engineer, Sunderland

Leighton, George, able seaman

Mawer, W, steward, Hull

McLean, A, boatswain, West Hartlepool

McLean, D, fireman, West Hartlepool

Pratt, D, able seaman

Smith S, carpenter, Hull

Taylor, J, 2nd mate, Hartlepool

Varey, G, fireman, West Hartlepool

Watson, E, fireman, West Hartlepool

Willis, A, engineer’s steward, Hartlepool

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