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Commodore - a general history

Official No. 26447: Code Letters PLFC.

Owners: 1838 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees; March 1853 Thomas Cookson (North Shields) Hartlepool; December 1853 Henry Mayors, South Shields; April 1864 Henry, John, Jane and Mary Mayors, South Shields; March 1868 John Mayors, South Shields; October 1872 Charles Weatherburn, Arthur Bilbrough (London) and William Tose, South Shields; May 1873 Arthur Bilbrough, William Tose and Thomas Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne) South Shields; 1875 Charles Weatherburn, Thomas Goldfinch (Whitstable) & Co.   

Masters: October 1838 William Curry; 1848-52 J Low; May 1853 Charles Edward Brown; December 1853 Joseph Worthington; March 1854-66 George Vallack (b. 1818 Devon); 1875 Richard Sanpher (C.N. 91714).

Insured with Hartlepool Mutual Marine Association in 1854-55.

Commodore sailed from the Tyne on 23 February 1875 bound for London with a cargo of 400 tons of coal & a crew of seven. She went ashore at Blacktail Spit at the mouth of the River Thames on 8 March 1875 & was refloated on 16 March and towed to Gravesend to be broken up at Faversham the same year. The master was reprimanded for his error in judgement.

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