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Admiral Jervis - a general history

Official No. 26283: Code Letters PKMD.

Owners: 1846 Thomas Cumming Gibson, London; 1847 George Parsons, Ipswich; 1848 F Ransome and G Parsons, Ipswich; 1849 Thomas Boudillion, London; 1851 Ralph Ward Jackson (Greatham) and Robinson Watson (Stockton-on-Tees) Hartlepool; November 1853 John Costy Wishart (coal-fitter) West Hartlepool; May 1854 Isabella Chapman (Thornton Rust, North Riding of Yorkshire) Hartlepool; by 1864-68 Thomas G Matthews (Codford, Wilts) London.

Masters: 1846 Patton; 1847 Bell; 1847 Hewitson; 1848-61 James Beeston; 1868 Thornton.

Voyages: 20 November 1848 the brig Iroquois collided with Admiral Jervis causing damage. The Iroquois was found to blame for the collision; 22 January 1868 arrived at Rochester from Sunderland.

Bound from Sunderland for Gravesend with a cargo of coal and a crew of five Admiral Jervis was wrecked on Pakefield Beach, Norfolk in December 1868. No lives lost.

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