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Schofield - a general history

Built at Whitby: Official No. 5159: Code Letters JGMV.

Owners: 1840 J. Schofield, Whitby; 1848 John Walker, Whitby; 1854 John Coverdale (master mariner) John Dobson & William Williamson (Great Ayton) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1848-53 John Walker; 1854 J Wood; 1854-57 John Coverdale; 1857-58 John Dobson; 1858 T Robinson;  1859 John Dobson.

Crew March 1859;    Burdon, John, mate

Voyages: 1858-59 Hartlepool for the Baltic.

Bound from Hartlepool for London with a cargo of coal Schofield struck on a reef near the Leman Lightship on 12 March 1859 & was wrecked. Crew saved.  

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