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Sophia - a general history

Built at Belfast. Official No. 20075 Code Letters MPVG.

Owners: 1841 Thompson, Belfast; 1848 C Pybus, Maidstone, Kent; 1861 Sam Woodward Teasel & Co, King’s Lynn; 1881 Dixon Taylor Sharper junior (Brunswick Street) West Hartlepool; 1896 Mrs S Sharper (Highfield Road, Doncaster) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1841-43 W Crum; 1845 R Ritchie; 1847 Blyth; 1848-53 R Allen; 1855-57 J James; 1861-95 J Teasel.

Voyages: 1846 Liverpool for Messina; 1847 Liverpool for Naples; 1849-50 Dartmouth for London; from Hartlepool for London with a cargo of coal she was run into by the Grimsby fishing smack Arthur & Ernest on 23 February 1886. Sophiareceived damage to her stem, bows & had her bowsprit broken.

Sophia had a hole cut into her starboard quarter just above the load line during a collision with a Conservancy lighter in Blackwall Reach in November 1897. While lying off Huntley’s Wharf, Greenwich after the collision she heeled over & sunk on 16 November 1897. Crew saved.

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