Official No. 54573: Code Letters HDLS.
Owners: 1868 George Pyman & Co, West Hartlepool: 1873 Pyman-Bell & Co, West Hartlepool: 1906 T Pallister & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne: 1907 William France, Fenwick & Co Ltd, London: 1909 The Dwins Ltd (FC Strick & Co) West Hartlepool.
Masters: 1868-70 Luty: 1871 Needham: 1871-78 TD Edgar: 1880-89 J Edgar: 1889 J Franks: 1890 TW Carter: 1892-1904 J Edgar: 1906 JA Nelson: 1907 J Waterman: 1908-09 JW Hart: 1911 RR Forbes: 1915 JK Butterworth: 1919 D James: 1920 T Brown.
Voyages: 15 December 1871 arrived at Gibraltar from Newcastle: August 1878 sailed from Shields for Swinemunde: 11 October 1889 arrived at Liverpool from Iceland: January 1891 from Newcastle-on-Tyne for Rouen with a cargo of coal Raithwaite Hall was in a collision in dense fog in the English Channel with the Stockton tanker Caroline Robert de Massey. The tanker sank & Raithwaite Hall was badly damaged. She was taken in tow by the Dover tug Lady Vita. The tanker was later refloated. No lives lost.
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