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Dawson - a general history

Dawson 1826-1869

Brocklebank, Whitehaven, Lancaster: Official No. 5256: Code Letters JGVK: one deck with beams; two masts; square stern; carvel built wood brig; coppered; 233g; 84.6 x 21.8 x 15.0; male bust figurehead; in need of repair 1836; some repairs 1845, 1852, 1853, 1856 & 1858; repairs to damage 1846 & 1859.

Owners: 1826 Dawson & Co, Blyth; 1835 Weeding, London; 1845 Robert Brewis, Hartlepool; 1857 Benjamin Young (North Shields) William Torrance (Hebburn) Robert Watson & William Swann, Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1858 James Clouston (South Shields) William Torrance (Hebburn) Robert Watson & William Swann, Newcastle-on-Tyne; June 1866 William Swann (died August 1867) Newcastle-on-Tyne; Decmber 1867 William Torrance & William Barnfather, Hebburn; March 1869 William Barnfather; 1869 John Coulson & Co, Redcar.

Masters: 1826-29 T Dawson; 1829 L Pearce; 1829-37 T Dawson; 1845 George Graham; December 1847-50 Edmund Stevenson; April 1850 John S Clinton; January 1852-57 George Angell Fordham (b. 1821 London); 1857 B Young; 1858-65 J Clonsten.

Voyages: 1845 Hartlepool for Hamburg

On a voyage from Gluckstadt for Newcastle-on-Tyne in ballast & with a crew of eight Dawsonstranded on Redcar Rocks & was lost on 23 November 1869.  Six of the crew were rescued by the lifeboat Burton-on-Trent. Two lives lost when trying to reach shore in the ship’s boat. The wreck was sold for £300 to be broken up.

Lives lost November 1869;

Rook, John, Yarmouth

Cabin boy

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