Palmers - a general history

(Possible builder) Blumer & Son: Official No. 44346; Code Letters TSQH.

This schooner was built at Hartlepool possibly by John Pile but in all probability by Blumers.

Owners: John & George Smith (master mariner, Bacton, Norfolk) (James Palmer, Walcott, Norfolk, mortgagee) West Hartlepool; 1867 John & George Smith (Bacton, Norfolk) Lowestoft; 1873 William Henry Markby Starling (b.1818 died 1885 Blakeney) Lowestoft; 1880 William Bowles (Blakeney) Lowestoft; 1881 MF Page (High St, Blakeney) Lowestoft; 1885 EC Turner (High St, Blakeney) Lowestoft; 1886 EC Turner, Lowestoft; 1895 EC Turner & MF Page, Lowestoft; 1896 JW Taylor (Sunderland) Lowestoft; 1900 J Rogers (Herne Bay) Lowestoft.

Masters: 1865-73 John Smith; 1874-75 Robert Holmes; 1880 J Johnson; 1881-86 William Bowles; 1887 Powell; 1887-88 William Bowles; 1900 R Skinner.

Miscellaneous: James Bell, mate, reported that from Shields for Blakeney with a cargo of coal, in a force 8 NNW gale, Palmers lost her sails & the master was washed overboard about six miles off Scarborough on 19 November 1875. She was assisted by a tug on 21 November 1875 but the crew was shorthanded & she touched the ground when re-entering port; 15 April 1882 she was laid on Walcott Beach to discharge her cargo when a gale damaged her & her cargo was lost .

Bound for Sunderland with wheat & a crew of five Palmers stranded near Harbour’s Mouth, East Lane, Suffolk & was wrecked on 14 February 1900. No lives were lost.

Crew 1880:

Jarvis, James, mate

Crew June 1881:

Bowles, William, master, 40, Blakeney

Dew, Jacob Jary, ordinary seaman, Blakeney

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