Glory - a general history

Glory 1825-1862

Built at Colchester, Essex: Official No. 5161; Code Letters JGNB;  listed in Lloyds Register initially as a ketch then a smack and by 1831 a schooner.

Owners: 1825 Frost & Co., London; 1827 Capper & Co., London; 1845 David Golder, Hamburg; 1851 Robert Hutchinson & John Dennis (Middlesbrough) Stockton-on-Tees; 16^th April 1859 John Dennis, West Hartlepool.

Masters: October 1825-27 Frost; 1827-28 S. Golder; 1828-29 T. Styles; 1830-33 Early; 1834-35 J. Hurst; 1835-39 Gaymer/Gaynor; 1839-41 May;  1842-49 David Robinson Golder; 27 May 1850-55 John Dennis; 1855-56 William Ramshaw; 1856-July-September 1859 John Dennis; July-October-November 1859 Thomas Hogarth; March 1860 Stamp; August 1860-October 1862 John Loynes.

Voyages: 1825-32 London for Rotterdam; 1841-43 London for Hamburg; 1850 London for Yarmouth; 1851 Stockton-on-Tees coaster; 9 October 1852 arrived Rochester from Hartlepool; sailed 14 April 1853 from Rochester for Middlesbrough; 14 May 1859 arrived Bremen from Hartlepool; 22nd July 1859 went on North Sands at Hartlepool and suffered slight damage; November 1859 Hartlepool for Rochester; February 1860 arrived Shields from Hull; March 1860 Stamp; 30 August 1860 arrived Gravesend; January 1861 arrived Gravesend; 16 July 1861 arrived Hartlepool; February 1862 arrived Gravesend; 6 June 1862 arrived Hartlepool; August 1862 arrived Hartlepool.

March 1849 on a voyage from Hamburg for London with a general cargo the Glory went ashore on the Corton Sands. She was assisted off by the beachmen of the Down Street Company of Lowestoft.

Glory had set sail for a voyage from Hartlepool for Hamburg with a cargo of coal on 16 October 1862. On Sunday night, 19^th October 1862 a terrific gale of hurricane proportions blew from the west. Many ships were blown ashore on the Dutch and Norwegian coasts and numerous others were lost at sea during the storm.

On 23 October 1862, a name-board which read ‘Glory, Hartlepool’ was washed up at Sonderho, Denmark. On the same day a tightly corked bottle was picked up on Nordby Strand, Denmark which contained a note from John Loynes, the master of Glory. It was addressed to his wife at 42 Grace Street, Stranton, West Hartlepool:

‘At Sea, October 19th, 1862.
My Dear Wife,
Before you get these few lines I shall be in heaven. Our ship, the Glory of West Hartlepool, is just about foundering. The pumps are both choked. John Hunter has his leg fractured by a sea breaking. We have had nothing but gales of wind, and we are almost a wreck. But thank God we are resigned to our heavenly Father's will. My men are all made happy in the Saviour's love. They were all crying for mercy, and they all found peace. The lad, John Hunter, was one of the brightest conversions I ever saw. My dear wife, I have left you in the hands of the Lord. I know He will provide for you and the dear children, and I hope you will all meet me in heaven. May He grant it for Christ's sake,
Your loving husband John Loynes.’

P.S. Send word to Wells, to Mrs Gill, and to London, to Mrs Margett’s, and to John Hunter’s friends.

Crew lost: John Loynes, master, aged 44, b. Holt, Norfolk; Richard Margetts, mate, aged 24, b. Shoreditch; William Gill, seaman, aged 21, b. Burnham Overy, Norfolk; William Osborne, seaman, aged 20, b. Ide Village, Devon; John Sowden Hunter, apprentice, aged 16, b. Sutton, Lincs.

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