Completed April 1852; Official No. 2171; Code Letters HNBR.
Owners: John Robinson (South Shields) & George Paul, North Shields.
Masters: 1852-53 George Paul (C.N.12147 Aberdeen 1855): October 1853-57 John Gillie (C.N.3508 Shields 1852): 1858-61 Robertson: 1863 J Wallace.
Voyages: 1854-55 Hartlepool for the Mediterranean: sailed from the Tyne on 19 July 1855 bound for Genoa with a cargo of coal & at the Straits of Gibraltar she was run into by a foreign schooner causing damage to her rail & her bulwarks. She arrived at Genoa on 22 August then called at Marseilles, Barcelona, Malaga, Mazatlan & Altata where she took on a cargo of Brazil wood & pearl shell for Liverpool; 1857 Australia; 1863 Shields for Ceylon.
On 31 January 1857 John Gillie, master of the Fairy, was presented with a snuff box for assisting in the rescue of the crew of the Harmonie when she was wrecked on Ross Sand near Bamburgh Castle on 4 January 1857.
Bound from Colombo for London with coffee & oil the Fairy was abandoned to founder off the coast of India in 14S/79E during a storm on 20 May 1863. Her crew were landed at Bombay & then taken to Mauritius by the Arundel.
The subsequent inquiry found that if the master had been tolerably well acquainted with the law of storms the vessel may have been saved.
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Fairy - a general history
