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Victory - a general history

Built in 1838 at Sunderland.

Wood brig 281nt 296gt; one deck; two masts; square rigged; square stern; carvel built; sheathed in yellow metal.

Dimensions 88.4 x 24.2 x 17.0

Owners: 1838 Hartlepool Original Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees;  1843 purchased for £1,600 Hartlepool & Durham Commercial Shipping Co (Thomas Rowell, Abraham Scotson & William Lisle) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1838-44 J Frost; 1845 C Wake; 1845 William Compton; January 1846 William Brough; January 1847 William Compton; June 1848 Edward Cummin; February 1849 John Minto.

Voyages: 1840-44 London for Constantinople; 1845 Hull for Constantinople; 3 July 1846 after leaving Odessa bound for Falmouth with a cargo of linseed the ship was making water so they had part of the cargo removed at Constantinople, the leak plugged and surveyed.  Leaks & pumping continued through the sea of Marmora, the Dardanelles, Valletta, Malta, Gibraltar to Falmouth where they had orders to go to Liverpool. When docked in Victoria Dock they found the main mast was sprung.

Bound from Archangel for London with a cargo of deals & about 100 cases of brandy Victory parted from her anchors & was wrecked at the back of the South Quay at Fraserburgh on 25 November 1849. The crew were brought ashore by the lifeboat. The hull was sold in January 1850 for £110. Loss recorded by letter from Robert E Hutton, manager, to Customs House Hartlepool.

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