Hartlepool History Then & Now

Ellis - a general history

Official No. 20569; Code Letters NBRG.

Owners: W Newstead Field (Cromer) Lowestoft; 1866-68 W Newstead Field (Cromer) & William Payne (Runton St, Cromer) Lowestoft; 1871-73 Nathanial Newstead Field (Runton, Cromer) & William Payne, Lowestoft; 1877-83 M Field (Runton) & Nathaniel Newstead Field (Cromer) Lowestoft; 1888 William Juniper (Mundesley) & Austin Blythe (West Cliff, Cromer) Lowestoft; 1891 Austin Blythe (Cromer) Lowestoft; 1896 Thomas Danby (Dock Office Buildings, Hartlepool) Lowestoft; 1898 John Danby (Hartlepool) Lowestoft; 1901 John Danby & Sons (Hartlepool) Lowestoft; 1903-20 Thomas B Keedy (Nelson’s Bank, South Shields) Lowestoft.

Masters: 1859-76 William Payne (b. Cromer 1813, C.N. 51849); 1877-95 Austin Blythe; 1896-97 Audas.

She plied mainly from Hartlepool & Middlesbrough down the east coast with coal.

Ellis was recorded as being wrecked at Jarrow Slake in November 1920, having given service for a total of 62 years.

British register closed 1920 (BT TNA Catalogue 110/297/28 National Archives Kew)