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Albatross - a general history

Built at Sunderland; Official No. 2793: Code Letters HQPD.

Owners: 1837 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Hartlepool; 1844 purchased for £1,035 by Charles Taylor, Sunderland; 1853 George Brown and Richard Humble, Sunderland.

Masters: 1839-41 Fleming; 1841-44 Williamson; 1853-64 George Brown junior.

Voyages: November 1841 stranded between Seaton Carew & Hartlepool during a fierce gale but was eventually re-floated; 1843 Hartlepool for London.

Bound from Sunderland for London with a cargo of coal Albatross struck on the upper part of the Newcombe Sands at Lowestoft & filled with water during an ESE storm on 3 October 1864. The crew of six took to their boat & were picked up in the Stanford Channel by the tug Powerful. The following morning not a vestige of Albatross could be seen.

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