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Lady Chandos - a general history

Built at St Malo, France as Chalonge: Official No. 29465: Code Letters QFSH.

Owners: 1861 Richard Merryweather, Bartholomew Wetherill & Thomas Taylor (farmer, Heselton) Hartlepool; November 1861 Thomas Taylor, Hartlepool; August 1866 Henry Jay Hagan (West Hartlepool) Yarmouth; August 1866 Thomas Taylor, Hartlepool; 1866 Yarmouth; by 1875 Edward Press, Yarmouth; 1886 J Mitcheson, Yarmouth; by 1887 Powley, Thomas & Co, Great Yarmouth; by 1891 F Jones (Milford Haven) Great Yarmouth.

Masters: 1864-65 Bryant; 1881 Robert Flower; 1887-88 Maude; 1891 J Evans; 1891 J Croker.

Crew berthed at Newcastle-on-Tyne June 1881;

Cook, Benjamin, able seaman, 50, Lowestoft, Suffolk

Crowe, Henry, able seaman, 48, Bedlingham, Norfolk

Lamb, Robert, mate, 44, Aldebrough, Suffolk

Flower, Robert, master, 40, Yarmouth, Norfolk

Voyages: At the beginning of November 1888 she was bound from Fowey for Runcorn with a cargo of china clay when she began leaking. She was hauled onto the hard yard at Fowey for repair.

Bound from Ballycotton for Carnarvon in ballast & with a crew of four Lady Chandos went ashore at St Tudwall’s Sound, Carnarvonshire on 7 September 1891. No lives lost.

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