Completed January 1857: Official No. 12899: Code Letters LDRV.

Owners: 1856 Mountjoy Pearse, George Lockwood & John Robson, Hartlepool; April 1857 Mountjoy Pearse, George Lockwood, John Tiplady & John George Robson (died 20 April 1857), Hartlepool;  9 February 1860 Mountjoy Pearse, George Lockwood junior & Henry Johnson McCulloch, Hartlepool; 3 December 1863 registry transferred to West Hartlepool; 1872 James Watkins, Lime Street, London; 1879 Benjamin R. Huntley, Berner & Co, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1857 J Finlay; 1858 A Watson; 1858 G Hirst; 1858 Bulmer; 1859-67 Peter Richmond Pottage (C.N. 9748 Shields 1855); 1867 Hogg; 1867-70 Peter Richmond Pottage; 1870 Cook; 1879-81 Matthew Stevenson; 1882 Henry C. Mouat.

On a voyage from Gothenburg to London with a cargo of iron & oats & a crew of 14 Iron Era was struck by a heavy sea & gave a sudden plunge forward from which she did not recover. 654 quarters of oats were stowed in the forehold & 27 bars of iron & 160 standards of battens in the mainhold. There were also about 30 standards of bettens stored on deck fore & aft. The master ordered the deck cargo to be jettisoned but the chief engineer & nine of the crew deserted the vessel. Subsequently the oats & deck cargo were seen floating away &, as the vessel was gradually settling down the master & remaining crew abandoned her just after which she foundered near the Dogger Bank on 6 June 1882. The chief engineer & nine of the crew were landed at Grimsby by a fishing smack. The Court of Inquiry found that the loss was caused through the sudden submerging of the bow, owing to some latent defect in the hull or keel. The Court commented upon the cowardly conduct of the chief engineer, Alexander Murray, & the nine men who left with him, who, instead of assisting with the engines & jettisoning the cargo, as ordered, wilfully left the vessel leaving the master & the remainder of the crew in danger. The Court suspended Alexander Murray’s certificate for six months.