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Formed in 1835 under the management of Robinson Watson and with a capital of £50,054. The shareholders were paid extremely high dividends which probably brought about the downfall of the Company. The shareholders were; Thomas Thompson of Stockton; Thomas Allison Tenant (railway clerk) Stockton; Joshua Byers (timber and lead merchant) Stockton; Ralph Walker of Stockton and Thomas Fox (spirit merchant) of Norton. William Lisle (miller) and William Geoge Jackson (grocer and druggist) both of Hartlepool. Although some of the shareholders were from Stockton-on-Tees all their vessels were known as Hartlepool ships and traded from that port.

The company went into liquidation in 1843 with some of their ships purchased by the Phoenix Shipping  Co. Those ships are  listed under that company. They were: Allison, Evenwood, George William and Schiedam.

Built at Sunderland: Official No. 3690: Code Letters HVJW.

Owners: 1837 T Oliver, Sunderland; 1838 Hartlepool Original Shipping Co, Hartlepool; 1844 Clay, Norfolk; 1852 Thomas Twidle Drysdale, Hartlepool; December 1852 Thomas Twidle Drysdale & John Arrowsmith (grocer & draper, Thornley) Hartlepool; December 1857 William Govan senior & William Govan junior (Glasgow) Hartlepool; 4 March 1858 John Tutin (draper, Northallerton) & Robert Heslop, Hartlepool; November 1858 John Winspear, Hartlepool; 23 November John Tutin (Northallerton) & Robert Heslop, Hartlepool; 16 December 1858 George Thompson (gentleman) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1837 Blackshaw; 1838 Wilkinson; 1839 I Britton; 1841-42 Kearsley; 1851-53 James Brown; February 1853-55 George Moore; May 1855-59 George Hewison (Newcastle); 1859 Edward Clark.

Voyages: 1838 Sunderland for London; 1842 Liverpool for Rotterdam; 1856-57 Hartlepool for London; sold as a wreck & re-registered at Hartlepool in December 1857; stranded on Knoxes Rock, one of the Fern Islands on 25 April 1858. She was assisted off on 29 April making 12 inches of water & had to be caulked before she could proceed.

Bound from Garrucha, Spain for Cardiff Sea foundered in 44N/11W in the Bay of Biscay about 140 miles off Cape Finisterre on 9 October 1859. The crew were picked up by the Llewellyn & landed at Falmouth on 12 October 1859.

Sea - custom registration document 1852.

Sea - custom registration document cancellation 1855.