Hartlepool History Then & Now

Elizabeth - a general history

Official No. 1721; Code Letters HLDR.

Owners: William George Jackson & Robert Henry Jackson (Yarm) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1852-53 Henry Johnson; September 1853 James Swinburn Moffatt; October 1853-55 Henry Johnson (C.N. 8585 Liverpool 1853); 1858-59 Andrew Garrick (C.N. 7606 London 1853).

Bound from Sulina for the UK with a crew of nine Elizabeth was wrecked near Kilia in the Black Sea during fierce gales on 13 November 1859. The mate & two seamen were drowned. The vessel was insured with the Hartlepool Mutual Marine Association.

Survivors November 1859:

Ballantine, George, Edinburgh

Garrick, Andrew, master

Johnson, Neil J

Kosmack, William

McJanitch, George

Winter, Francis