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Ann Emma - a general history

Official No. 3487: Code Letters HTMK.

Owners: January 1838 Henry Mitcalfe, Mary Ann & Emma Drury, Tynemouth; 1840 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Hartlepool; November 1844 purchased for £1,620 byThomas Meesom, Fenchurch St. London; by 1857 George Clark Smith & Samuel Osborne, South Shields.

Masters: 1838 James Weatherstone; 1840-41 Foster/Forster; 1842-44 Thompson; November 1844 Dickson/Dixon; 1846-48 J Wilson; 1848 George Colvin Scotland; 1849- 50 George Stephenson; 1850 John Mann; 1850-57 Henry Whitehead; 1858 Spence; 1858 Oliver; 1859 Richard Oaks/Oakes.

Voyages: April 1840 from Rotterdam with a cargo of wheat; 4 November 1840 from Dalhousie for Wyre Water with a cargo of timber she ran into a hurricane which swept her decks clean of everything, losing her foretop, sailyard, mainboom & trysail mast. She put into the Cove of Cork; 7 February 1841 from Liverpool for Newcastle-on-Tyne with a cargo of salt in passing Luggan Point during a heavy gale she struck on a sunken rock which was uncharted. She was re-floated after discharging some of her cargo; 1843-44 Clyde for Toulon 10 January 1845 ashore on Scroby Sand, Great Yarmouth. She was re-floated after some of her cargo was jettisoned; 3 June 1848 Ann Emma was advertised for sale by private contract.

Bound from Shields for London with a crew of eight Ann Emma drove ashore near Southwold & became a wreck on 30 October 1859 during a fierce gale. The crew were saved by Southwold beachmen using a rope.

Crew October 1859: John Garbutt, Joseph Gibson.

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