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Brothock -a general history

Brothock 1809-1845

Berwick-on-Tweed: one deck; two masts; square stern; carvel built wood snow; part sheathed with copper; 341g; 79.5 x 19.3 x 11.0; rebuilt & enlarged at Arbroath 1813; some repairs 1821; lengthened 1826; Lloyds Registers of 1811 to 1816 records the vessel as having six guns.

Owners: 1811-27 T Fleming; May 1835 Edward Heron (Blythe) (bankrupt) Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1844 Robert Brewis (painter & glazier) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1811-18 Thompson; 1818-19 W Peters; 1820 G Porter; 1821-27 J Scott; 1834-36 T Hall; 1844-45 George Cooper.

On a voyage from Hartlepool for Rouen Brothock was lost on the Scroby Sands, Great Yarmouth on 26 January 1845.  All lives lost, including seven crew of the yawl Phoenix, who went to their assistance.   

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