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Sea - a general history

Built at Sunderland: Official No. 3690: Code Letters HVJW.

Owners: 1837 T Oliver, Sunderland; 1838 Hartlepool Original Shipping Co, Hartlepool; 1844 Clay, Norfolk; 1852 Thomas Twidle Drysdale, Hartlepool; December 1852 Thomas Twidle Drysdale & John Arrowsmith (grocer & draper, Thornley) Hartlepool; December 1857 William Govan senior & William Govan junior (Glasgow) Hartlepool; 4 March 1858 John Tutin (draper, Northallerton) & Robert Heslop, Hartlepool; November 1858 John Winspear, Hartlepool; 23 November John Tutin (Northallerton) & Robert Heslop, Hartlepool; 16 December 1858 George Thompson (gentleman) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1837 Blackshaw; 1838 Wilkinson; 1839 I Britton; 1841-42 Kearsley; 1851-53 James Brown; February 1853-55 George Moore; May 1855-59 George Hewison (Newcastle); 1859 Edward Clark.

Voyages: 1838 Sunderland for London; 1842 Liverpool for Rotterdam; 1856-57 Hartlepool for London; sold as a wreck & re-registered at Hartlepool in December 1857; stranded on Knoxes Rock, one of the Fern Islands on 25 April 1858. She was assisted off on 29 April making 12 inches of water & had to be caulked before she could proceed.

Bound from Garrucha, Spain for Cardiff Sea foundered in 44N/11W in the Bay of Biscay about 140 miles off Cape Finisterre on 9 October 1859. The crew were picked up by the Llewellyn & landed at Falmouth on 12 October 1859.

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