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Messenger - a general history

Owners: 1835 R Danson, Sunderland; 1836 (purchased for £1,800) Hartlepool General Shipping Co, Hartlepool; 30 May 1844 purchased for £730 by Mr Watson, Stockton-on-Tees; 1845 Carrol & Co, Stockton-on-Tees.

Masters: 1835-41 R Jackson; 1842-44 Errington; 1845-49 J Harrison; 1853 Mark Davidson.

Voyages: 1838 Cork for London; 1843 Hartlepool for Portsmouth.

Messenger was abandoned in a sinking state about 80 miles north of Tynemouth Castle on 28 December 1853. The crew were taken off by the Macduff brig Seaton.

Crew December 1853:

Davidson, Mark, master

Gibson, John

Gloustane, John

Henderson, George

Lamb, William

Lovitt, G

Noghtingale, Benjamin

Smith, Samuel

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