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Ariel - a general history

Luke Blumer & Son: launched September 1850; Official No. 5090; Code Letters JGFK.

Owners: George & Luke Blumer, Hartlepool; 4 March 1851 Matthew Horsley (pilot) Edward Spence, Emmanuel Spence (master mariner) & Paul Maude Edgar (surgeon) ), Hartlepool; November 1852 Matthew Horsley (pilot) Edward Spence, Emmanuel Spence (master mariner) & Paul Maude Edgar (surgeon) ) Hartlepool; January 1855 Benjamin Grainger, Benjamin Tindale & Richard Robinson (Robin Hood’s Bay) Whitby; 1860 Thomas Ellemore (pilot, Seaham Harbour) Whitby; by 1862 Thomas Ellemore, JW Ellemore & William Watson (Seaham) Whitby.

Masters: 16 August 1850 Christopher Dagliesh; 6 March 1851-52 Emmanuel Spence; 17 November 1852 John Foster; 18 April 1853-54 Thomas Verrill (C.N.100 Sunderland 1856); 1855-62 Benjamin Tindale Robinson; 1862 George Hepple.

Voyages: 1851-52 Hartlepool for the Baltic; 29 October 1853 from Cronsdtadt to Elsinore for orders she ran ashore at Nahr & was refloated after some of her cargo was jettisoned; 1855 Hartlepool for London; 1858-62 Hartlepool for Hamburg.

Bound from Neath for London in June 1862 she developed a leak & the master tried to run for Appledore. When off Hartland Point she had eight feet of water in her & became unmanageable. The crew took to the jollyboat & landed at Clovelly. Ariel foundered soon after being abandoned.

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