Hartlepool History Then & Now

Queen (1838) - a general history

Built Sunderland; Official No. 3530: Code Letters HTQG.

Owners: 1838 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1844 purchased for £1,650 by Richard Watkins & George Clark, Hartlepool; March 1849 Richard Watkins, Hartlepool; 1849 Richard & Christina Watkins (Middlesex) Hartlepool; February 1850 Isabella Hunter, South Shields; by 1860 Andrew Towers (master mariner died 17 January 1864 aged 44) Hartlepool; 1864 Mrs Mary Alice Towers (widow) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1845-49 George Clark; March 1849 William Lewis; April 1849 Robert Wilson Clark; December 1849 Richard Watkins; 1850 March Thomas Fair; February 1851 James Smith; August 1851 George Sykes; December 1852 Francis Duffield; March 1854 John Wyatt; June 1854 Robert Hales; 1863-65 John Work.

Voyages: 1846 Hartlepool for Petersburg.

Bound from Hartlepool for Cronstadt with a cargo of coal shipped by Christianson & Co & a crew of eight Queen was lost north of the Cattegat near Gothenberg on 31 May 1865 during a terrible storm. All lives lost.

John Work, the master, had six children & his wife ran a second hand clothes shop in John St. Hartlepool.

Lives lost May 1865;

Three apprentices

Ferguson, WR, mate

Haywood, James, able seaman

Jackson, Joseph, able seaman, 24, Hartlepool (interred Onsala Churchyard. M.I. in Spion Kop Cemetery, Hartlepool)

Seal, John, able seaman

Work, John, master, Hartlepool