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Friendship - a general history

Official No. 5172: Code Letters JGNS.

Owners: 1837 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1838 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co (Joshua Byers (Stockton-on-Tees) Gustavias Adolphus Tate (Hartlepool) Mary Sheraton (Newton Bewley) and William Lisle (Middleton) Hartlepool; December 1844 purchased for £1,320 by Mr Perkins, Shields; 1846 Tate and Co, Hartlepool; 1848 William Lisle, Representatives of the late Gustavus Adolphus Tate (Hartlepool) and Mary Sheraton (Newton Bewley, Durham) Hartlepool; by 1858 Robert Harrowing, Whitby; by 1867-70 Henry Roberts, Whitby.

Masters: 1843 Lambert; 1845 Nathaniel Hearsley; March 1846 Thomas Tindle; 1846 J Dixon; 1848 Thomas Tindle; January 1852 Frederick Brackley; August 1852 Richard Allinson; 1855 Frederick Brackley.

Bound from Hamburg in ballast Friendship went ashore on Lector Rock at Whitby during fierce ENE gales on 29 October 1855. No lives lost. The Content & Finland of Hartlepool went ashore near the same place on the same day,

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