Castle Eden

A painting of the Castle Eden donated by Mr Hugh Cubey, West Hartlepool, great grandson of John Halliday, owner of the ship.

Completed 1837; Yard No. 1; Official No. 3689; Code Letters HVJT.

Owners: 1837 (purchased for £2,800) Hartlepool General Shipping Co (William Vollum, John Burrell, William Chaytor & Thomas Wood) Stockton-on-Tees; 30 May 1844 (purchased for £1,040) Thomas Rowell (Hartlepool) Stockton-on-Tees; 1844 John Halliday (died May 1859) South Shields; 1859 Isabella Holliday (died October 1871) South Shields; October 1873 Ann Banfield (William Wright, William Tose & John Bowman agents) South Shields; 1874 William Wright (West Dock) South Shields.

Masters: 1837 William Morris; 1838-39 Anderson; 1840-43 Harrison; 1844-48 William George Tilford (C.N. 7758 Shields 1856); 1849-50 R Canning; 1850-61 George Elliott (C.N. 2182); 1861-69 G Hunter.

Voyages: 26 August 1837 St Petersburg for Gravesend; 20 September 1838 Archangel for Liverpool; September 1840 Marseille for Quebec; 22 May 1841 Gravesend for St Petersburg; 1843 Macao, Hong Kong & Singapore; 1848-1855 Shields for the Baltic; 1 November 1866 stranded south of Schwarzort 24 miles from Memel. She was refloated, taken to Memel & declared a wreck but was repaired & eventually returned to the Tyne with deals on 14 October 1867; June 1877 she was lying off the Middle Dock in the Tyne & being advertised for sale by auction.

Castle Eden was dismantled on 23 October 1878 & sold.

The following information is taken from an unpublished work, 'The Castle Eden Ships - A Maritime Musing of a Landlocked Village', by Glen Fallow:

Her master in 1839 was Captain Anderson and later in 1840 by a Captain Harrison. She is recorded as sailing to various ports including Hamburg in 1839. On the 1st November, 1866, the Castle Eden was stranded about twenty-four miles from Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania). She was later refloated and on the 14th October, 1867, entered the Tyne with a cargo of deals. Her register was closed on 23rd October, 1878.

A half-model of a small wooden sailing vessel, believed to have been made with wood from the Castle Eden.