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Saint Hilda - a general history

Built at Middlesbrough: Official No. 5170: Code Letters JGNQ.

Owners: 1838 Stockton-on-Tees; 1845 Robert Brewis (Hartlepool) & James Finlay (engineer, Port Patrick, Wigton) Hartlepool; 14 October 1845 James Finlay (Port Patrick, Wigton) Hartlepool; 14 October 1845 Thomas Sanderson, Hartlepool; 15 October 1845 James Finlay (Port Patrick, Wigton) Hartlepool; 1846 William Merryweather (Hartlepool) & Moses Merryweather (Longacre, Middlesex) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1842-44 T Brewis; 1845 George Graham; 1845 John Wallace; 1847 Thomas Reid; June 1848 John Dagleish; 1851 Edgley; 1851-56 John Dalgleish; 1859 Hoare.

Bound from London for Hartlepool with a cargo of coal Saint Hilda was totally wrecked on the Stony Binks outside Spurn Point on 25 November 1859. The crew were saved by the Hull lifeboat. On 5 December a quantity of wreckage from Saint Hilda was washed ashore at Donna Nook.  

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