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Northumbria - a general history

Official No. 29475: Code Letters HBLM.

Owners: William Gray, Robert Gray, James Monks, John Punshon Denton & John Fothergill, Hartlepool: April 1872 William Gray, Robert Gray, James Monks, John Punshon Denton & Richard Copeland Denton, Hartlepool: 1872-76 Pantland Hick senior, Scarborough.

Masters: 1865 Manson: 1866-72 J Knight: 1873-74 JW Hick; 1875 Nicholson.

Voyages: March 1865 in collision with a schooner off the Humber: 23 April 1870 arrived Greenock from New York: July 1871 arrived on the Clyde from Trinidad: 15 October 1871 damaged during a gale off Halifax, Nova Scotia: 6 July 1872 sailed from Gravesend for Valparaso: 28 March 1873 arrived Falmouth from Macabi: 13 August 1875 arrived Queenstown from Macabi.

Northumbria sailed from Montreal with wheat on 30 October 1877 bound for Queenstown for orders. On 5 November, during a snow storm, she stranded at Martin’s Bay on the coast of Anticosti. Her crew abandoned her & were landed at Gaspe. The vessel was valued at about £6,000 & her cargo £10,000. At the inquiry into the casualty it was found that the master ought to have shaped a course that would not have brought him so close to the coast. His certificate was suspended for three months.

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