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Schiedam - a general history
Built at Sunderland.
Owners: 1838 Hartlepool Original Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1843 purchased for £1,010 Phoenix Shipping Co (William Lisle, Middleton, Hartlepool, Joshua Byers & Thomas Fox, Stockton-on-Tees) Hartlepool; April 1846 G Bell & Co, London; by 1867 GW Halfpenny (Lower Shadwell, Middlesex) London; 1868 Robert Robinson, Middlesbrough .
Masters: 1840-42 J Speed; 1843-44 J King; 1845 Richard Fishwick; 1848-52 J Gibbon; 1854-57 G Henry; 1858 J Gilbert; 1859-61 E Fox; 1861 Meek; 1862 Nichols; 1862-66 E Fox; 1869 Gibson.
Voyages: 1843-44 Hartlepool to London; 1850-65 Shields for the Baltic; November 1861 the master, Meek, was seriously injured when he fell from the masthead. He was landed at Lowestoft.
Bound from Stockton for Southampton with a cargo of coal & a crew of six Schiedam sprang a leak & foundered off Scarborough on 4 December 1869. The crew took to their longboat & five of them were eventually picked up by the Scarborough lifeboat. The master was washed out of the longboat before the lifeboat rescue.
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