Official No. 18195: Code Letters MKSW.

Owners: 1857 West Hartlepool Screw Steam Shipping Co (Ralph Ward & William Charles Ward Jackson (Greatham) Edward Turnbull, JC Wishart, Thomas Scurr & George Pyman) Hartlepool; 1864 Joseph Spence (Cornhill, London) & John Pile, West Hartlepool; May 1866 John Anthony Wood & Christopher Dove Barber (Newcastle-on-Tyne) West Hartlepool; November 1866 William & David Sloan & Co, Glasgow-renamed Jura; May 1870 Dingwall & Skye Railway Co, Inverness; December 1871 John Bell (Prestwick) Glasgow; February 1876 John Bell & James Higgins (engineer, Hamilton) Glasgow.

Masters: 1858-59 Samuel T Paxton; 1860-63 Spence; 1863-67 J Moore; 1868 G Mills; 1869 B Hutchinson; 1872 Roberts; 1879 James C Cleland.

Voyages: 10 June 1857 sailed from Jackson Dock in Hartlepool for London with a cargo of iron rails from the Tow Law iron works; 1858-63 Hartlepool for Rotterdam; from Rotterdam for Hartlepool with a general cargo, including corn, during a severe gale on 27 October 1859 Admiral Cator struck the south pier when trying to enter Hartlepool harbour & sank. At low tide she was exposed & her cargo was removed. She was later re-floated; early November 1863 bound from Rotterdam for Hartlepool she had to put in to Lowestoft for shelter from a gale; December 1866 from West Hartlepool for Glasgow Admiral Cator ran onto the Stirk Rock in the Sound of Jura& went over onto her beam ends. She was lifted on 6 May 1867 & taken for repair before returning to the Clyde.

Jura sailed from the Humber on 15 February 1879 bound for Larnaca, Smyrna with a cargo of coal & ships stores & a crew of 17 & disappeared. It was assumed that she had come to grief near Cross Sands, Yarmouth as a quantity of wreckage was washed up in that vicinity. The deck was found completely separated so this & other circumstances pointed to the possibility that there had been an explosion aboard. Most of the crew were from Greece.