Length (feet) :	86.1
Breadth (feet) :	23.0
Depth (feet):	16.0
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) :
Net Registered Tonnage (n.r.t.) :	261
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Additional Particulars :	one deck; two masts; square stern; carvel built wood brig fastened with iron bolts felt sheathed in zinc; thoroughly repaired at Whitby 1847; new deck & some repairs 1850; some repairs 1853 & 1856; new top sides & some repairs 1861 & 1864.

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Queen (1838) - a general history

Built Sunderland; Official No. 3530: Code Letters HTQG.

Owners: 1838 Hartlepool Union Shipping Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1844 purchased for £1,650 by Richard Watkins & George Clark, Hartlepool; March 1849 Richard Watkins, Hartlepool; 1849 Richard & Christina Watkins (Middlesex) Hartlepool; February 1850 Isabella Hunter, South Shields; by 1860 Andrew Towers (master mariner died 17 January 1864 aged 44) Hartlepool; 1864 Mrs Mary Alice Towers (widow) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1845-49 George Clark; March 1849 William Lewis; April 1849 Robert Wilson Clark; December 1849 Richard Watkins; 1850 March Thomas Fair; February 1851 James Smith; August 1851 George Sykes; December 1852 Francis Duffield; March 1854 John Wyatt; June 1854 Robert Hales; 1863-65 John Work.

Voyages: 1846 Hartlepool for Petersburg.

Bound from Hartlepool for Cronstadt with a cargo of coal shipped by Christianson & Co & a crew of eight Queen was lost north of the Cattegat near Gothenberg on 31 May 1865 during a terrible storm. All lives lost.

John Work, the master, had six children & his wife ran a second hand clothes shop in John St. Hartlepool.

Lives lost May 1865;

Three apprentices

Ferguson, WR, mate

Haywood, James, able seaman

Jackson, Joseph, able seaman, 24, Hartlepool (interred Onsala Churchyard. M.I. in Spion Kop Cemetery, Hartlepool)

Seal, John, able seaman

Work, John, master, Hartlepool

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Union Shipping Co.

Although formed in 1838 with a capital of £46,770 some of her vessels were purchased in 1837. This would probably have been at the latter end of the year. The Company went into liquidation in 1845.

The Hartlepool Union Shipping Company "was established for the purpose of purchasing or building ships or vessels, to be employed in the coal or other trades, from Hartlepool or other ports and places, as the committee may order and direct."

The vessels were registered in the names of six of the co-partners as trustees. They were: George Blakelock; Cuthbert Sharp (historian & shipowner, Hartlepool); Thomas Rowell (bank agent, Hartlepool); William Lisle (miller of Middleton-mills, Hartlepool); George Peacock (farmer Stockton-on-Tees); Ralph Walker (farmer, Stranton) & Stephen Horner.

The committee for the first year was formed of the following: John Burrell; John Wood; Robert Henry Allan (solicitor); George Blakelock; Percival Forster; Cuthbert Sharp; John Wells; William Lisle; William Walden; Stephen Horner; George Sheraton; James Findlay; William Sotheran; Thomas Rowell & John Sharp.

Fleet list (giving life and cost of vessel):

Agility 1834-1871 £1800

Albatross 1837-1864 £2285

Ann Emma 1838-1859 £2800

Anne Maria 1829-1850 £1850

City of Durham 1838-1843 £2900

Commodore 1838-1875

Eliza Liddle 1834-1847 £2500

Friendship 1837-1871 £2360

Gipsy 1837-1863 £2500

Harmonious 1837-1858 £2560

Hart 1838-1870 £2450

Hope 1834-1879

Isabella Wood 1840-1853

John Burrell 1838-1852 £2700

Margarets 1837-1875 £2950

Queen 1837-1865 £2650

Rosa 1837-1866 £2400

Saladin 1838-1845

Thomas Wood 1838-1852

Union 1838-1840 £3050

William Broderick 1836-1868 £2500

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