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John - a general history

John 1824-1856

Chepstow, Monmouthshire: previously Chepstow: Official No. 2587: Code Letters HPSK: one deck with beams; standing bowsprit; square stern; carvel built wood barque; 273g; 97.5 x 25 4 x 17.0; new deck 1843; large repairs 1845; some repairs 1849; repairs to damage 1851, 1852 & 1856.

Owners: 1824 I Chubb & Co; 1827-39 Davidson & Co, London; Ferguson; September 1849 Edwards & Shield, South Shields; September 1849 Robert Craggs, John Laidler & Richard Hunter, Stockton-on-Tees; January 29 January 1850 Union Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 17 March 1853 purchased for £1455 by Robert Brewis, Hartlepool; 9 January 1855 Joseph & Edward Binnsden, Sunderland; March 1855 Henry Apthorpe Bentham, Sunderland.

Masters: 1824-25 J Fisher; 1826 Headon; 1827-34 C Munro; 1836 Fisher; 1837 Forrest; 7 September 1849 William Train; 1 October 1849-52 George Bell; 19 March 1853 Richard Fishwick; 21 October 1853 George Lines; April 1854 James Smith; 1855 Silvester Curran (C.N. 13510 Sunderland 1855); 1856 Gibson.

Insured with Hartlepool Mutual Marine Association after 1852.

Voyages: 1835 London for Jamaica; 1853 Hartlepool for France; 16 September 1854 from Quebec for Grimsby she developed a leak at sea & had to put in at Lerwick to discharge.

On a voyage from Bordeaux for Cardiff John was wrecked at the mouth of the Gironde on 10 January 1856. Crew saved.

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