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Hunwick - a general history

Built at Liverpool: Official No. 5019: Code Letters JFVN.

Owners: 1852 Thomas Cumming Gibson, John Tindale Harris & James Dixon, London; 1852 West Hartlepool Shipping Co (Ralph Ward Jackson) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1854 Joseph Mullett; June 1854 Robert Weatherly; 1855 William Pearson; 1858 Robert Weatherley.

Hunwick left West Hartlepool for London with a cargo of coal on 11 November 1858 & sprang a leak & foundered in an easterly gale on 15 November 1858 in Yarmouth Roads. The crew saved themselves in their own lifeboat. The steamer & cargo were valued at about £9,000.

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