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Henrietta Sophia - a general history

Built at Sunderland: Official No. 33239: Code Letters RDLV.

Owners: 1838 Hartlepool Original Shipping Co, Hartlepool; by 1849 Page & Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1853 S Ingledew, London; 1857 G Best, Wisbeach.

Masters: 1838 Tennant; 1839 Hall; 1840-42 Fairburn; 1844 Meek; 1845 Hudson; 1846 Watson; 1847 Moller; 1848 Watson; 1849-50 C Walker; 1851-52 J Crowe; 1853-56 G Wright; 1857-58 T Garner; 1860 Tosh; 1860 Frandsen; 1861 Ritchie; 1862 Dumbill; 1863 Burlinson; 1864 Hornsby.

Voyages: September 1840 arrived Stockton-on-Tees from Quebec; 25 May 1848 went ashore filled with water at Schulau Bar; September 1857 stranded on the Holm Sand & had to jettison her cargo of timber.

Advertised to be auctioned at the King’s Head Hotel, Hartlepool on 6 February 1844 but remained unsold on the day.

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