Foxhound Technical Specification

Official No. 58090; Code Letters HRFG.

Owners: Moon & Co, Sunderland; 1873 Laurence Tulloch (shipowner) James Halliday & Edward Starbuck Williams (master mariners) Georgina Jane Playford (widow) Frederick Henry Northcombe (gentleman) George Blaney Meager (shipowner) Edward Sharp Truro (surgeon) Charles Thomas Wilson, Thomas & Edward Hammet (shipowners) all Swansea, William Arthur Ord, William Ash Ord & Thomas Davidson (shipowners) Charles Wright (solicitor) all Sunderland) Swansea.

Masters: 1867-73 Prust; 1872-76 Halliday; 1877-82 J Rees; 1883-85 H Beynon; 1890 Bevan; 1891-96 J Walters; 1897 W Thomas.

Voyages: from 1890 to 1894 Swansea for Rosario, Argentina, Port Louis, Mauritius, Port Nolloth, South Africa; 1894 Swansea for Belfast, Ardrossan, Demerara, Guyana, Port Royal & Beaufort, Carolina, USA; 27 February 1897 left Dunkerque bound for Swansea. While in charge of a pilot John Posset she stranded at St Valery sur Somme in March & although reported to be a total wreck she was taken back to Swansea. The crew had been rescued with great difficulty. Lying in a damaged state at the South Dock, Swansea she was to be auctioned on 30 June 1897.

Not registered in the UK as Foxhound in 1898. Swansea Mariners list states the Foxhound was re-registered at Bristol in July 1921 but can find no record of this.

Crew (berthed at Cornwall) June 1881:
Barlow, Arthur, able seaman, 44, Kilmoor, Ireland; Beynon, Henry, master, 32, Swansea; Carn, Thomas, able seaman, 42, Wexford, Ireland; Chalk, Samuel, boatswain, 46, Glamorganshire; Davies, John, apprentice, 16, Mumbles; James, James, apprentice, 18, apprentice, Swansea; Jenkins, John, mate, 32 Solva, Pembrokeshire; Jones, Trevor, apprentice, 18, Swansea; McDonald, Peter, able seaman, 49, Nova Scotia; Milton, William, pilot, 42, London; Rees, Thomas, able seaman, 49, St Ogmells, Pembrokeshire; Williams, John, able seaman, 53, Tenby, Pembrokeshire; Williams, William, cook/steward, 44, Glamorganshire.

Crew March 1894: Thomas, W, master; Whyatt, Charles S, 2^nd mate.

Shields Daily Gazette Saturday 22^nd June, 1889:
THE VALUE OF SHIPPING SHARES. At the Queen's Hotel, Sunderland, yesterday, Mr. A. T. Crow, acting on behalf of the trustees of Mr. Thos. Davidson, offered for sale four sixty-fourth shares in the iron-built barque Foxhound and one sixty-fourth share in the screw steamer Etna. The Foxhound belongs to Swansea, where she is managed by Mr. L. Tulloch. She was built at Hartlepool in 1867, and is of 444 —476 tons register. In November last she paid a dividend of £18. No offer was forthcoming, and the four shares were withdrawn. The Etna is of 1,067 tons gross register, and is managed by Messrs. Herskind, Woods, and Co., of West Hartlepool. She was built at Stockton in 1874. Her last dividend was £30. Bidding opened at £50, and ran up to £120, at which figure the share was sold to Mr. Edward Oliver. Mr Henry Ritson was solicitor for the vendors.