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Corsair - General history

Official No. 23785; Code Letters NTCP.

Owners: William Gray (woollen draper, West Hartlepool) James Robson (Newcastle-on-Tyne) Matthew Gray (North Blyth) & Henry Taylor (Liverpool) Hartlepool; by 1860 Robert Lawn (master mariner) & John Lawn (farmer, Scarborough) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1844-45 Edward Pearson; 1845 James Pounder (C.N.2095 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1845); 1846-48 Thomas Boyling (C.N.11540 Shields 1855); 1848-52 Thomas George Kane; 1852-55 Francis Walter; 1862-63 Lawn; 1864-65 William Chapman.

Voyages: December 1847 from Narva for Riga put in at Beraholm leaky after being on shore; 1848-51 Hartlepool for the Mediterranean; 27 July 1863 from Hartlepool for Cronstadt with coal she stranded at Dragoc.

Bound from Gluckstadt for Wyborg in ballast Corsair foundered off Nargen in the Baltic during a gale on 8 October 1865. The crew were saved & landed at Cronstadt. 

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