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Osprey - a general history
Completed November 1855: Official No. 26141: Code Letters PJVQ.
Owners: Launched for Hartley & Co (James Hartley, John Robson, Thomas Pope, Charles Barrett, S Chester, M Pearce, George Lockwood & Ralph Ward Jackson) Hartlepool; 1855 Ralph Ward & W Charles Ward Jackson, Hartlepool; 1860 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1862 West Hartlepool Steam Naviagation Co (Leng & Curtis) Hartlepool; 1863 West Hartlepool Screw Steam Shipping Co (J Spence) Hartlepool; 1864 (bought for £22,500) Nicholas D Spartelli, Liverpool-renamed Osiris.
Masters: 1856-57 Roberts; 1857-59 Charlesworth; 1860-62 Thomas McCarthy; 1863 W Irvine; 1870 Thomas Barron (b. 1821 Waterford).
In January 1857 Osprey sank at Hartlepool in the fairway of West Hartlepool. As she was an obstruction to shipping traffic her owners had her quickly raised but she sank again at the north of the outer harbour. Her cargo was removed & taken to the Graving Dock. She was raised again.
Voyages: Hartlepool for the Baltic; Stockton-on-Tees for the Mediterranean.
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