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Hope - a general history

Official No. 5004: Code Letters JFTN.

Owners: 1838 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1853 George Coltman, Hartlepool; May 1855 John Robson (Ryhope) Hartlepool; by 1857 George Denton, Hartlepool; July1857 Andrew Clark, Whitby; 1860 John Coverdale & William Laidler Hartlepool; 1875 John Coverdale, Mark Dring & John Pattison, Hartlepool. Masters: 1850 Davidson; 1853 Dennis Denman; May 1854 George Goldsack (C.N. 3356 Hull 1852); 1854 Dennis Denman; March 1855-56 James Hill Cable (C.N. 12045 Glasgow 1855); 1862 Denton; 1865-67 G Holder; 1879 J Osbon.

1860 insured with the Hartlepool Mutual Marine Insurance Association for £375-value £600; February 1872 insured with the Hartlepool Mutual Marine Insurance Association for £500-value £800.

Bound from Hartlepool for London with a cargo of coal she was assisted into Lowestoft by a tug on 26 October 1878. She was very leaky & was put on the mud in the inner harbour to await repair.

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