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Thomas Rowell - a general history

Official No. 14181: Code Letters LMCJ.

Owners: 1839 Hartlepool & Durham Commercial Shipping Co (Thomas Rowell, Abraham Scotson & William Lisle) Hartlepool; April 1851 Charles Newby Wawn & Jonathan Ayton, South Shields; 1861 John Gibbon, Shields; 1865 Alexander Reed Grant, North Shields.

Masters: 1839 Samuel Musgrove; 1845 Alexander Robertson; March 1848-50 Thomas Nellis; April 1850 John Minto; 1851 Jonathan Ayton; 1852 Frederick Sloone; 1853 Jonathan Ayton; 1853-65 George Storey Helmsley; 1866 Robinson.

With the dissolution of the Hartlepool & Durham Shipping Co an auction was held on 15 April 1851 at the Wheat Sheaf Inn at Hartlepool to sell 12 of their vessels including Thomas Rowell.

7 December 1840 she was the first vessel to enter the new docks at Hartlepool.

Voyages: 30 June 1847 arrived at Quebec from London with one passenger; 1861 Shields for Spain.

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