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Voyager - a general history

Voyager 1815-1863

Built by Robert Reay, Hylton Ferry, Sunderland: Official No. 23782: Code Letters NTCK: one deck with beams; two & trysail masts; square stern; carvel built wood snow; 230g; 87.1 x 22.3 x 15.8; thorough repairs 1834; some repairs 1842 & 1854; repairs to damage 1848.

Owners: 1815 Robert Jacques, Joseph Taylor & Miles Birkett Foster, North Shields; 1817 Robert Jacques, Joseph Taylor, Miles Birke Foster, James Unthank & William Harvey, North Shields; 1825 Miles Birkett Foster, Joseph Unthank & James Richardson, North Shields; 1826 Thomas Rook Jones, North Shields; 1832 Daniel Heatley, South Shields; 1834 Thomas Addison Barnes (Westoe) Shields; 1842 John White, South Shields; 1835 G Hudson, Sunderland; 1842 John White, South Shields; December 1849 John Punshon Denton, Hartlepool; June 1850 Benjamin Henderson Huntley & Joseph Nixon Eden (shipbroker), Hartlepool; March 1853 Benjamin Henderson Huntley, Hartlepool; 1857 John Punshon Denton & Jane Eden (widow of Joseph Nixon Eden), Hartlepool; December 1862 Addison Brown, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1815-16 R Jacques; 1817 J Dunbar; 1819-22 R Jacques; 1822-25 James Richardson; 1825-31 W Howarth/Hogarth; 1832 James Cunningham; 1834 William Chilton; 1834 Benjamin Purvis; 1835-36 G Grozier; 1837 Crinson; 1837 Daniel Bedford; 1841 Slightholm Blackburn; 1844 Matthew Shearman; April 1848 William Smith; 1848-50 W Sinclair; 25 January 1850 Alexander Pirie; September 1851 Wilson Jackson; May 1852 David Bird (C.N. 3360 Leith 1852); November 1852 Thomas Fairburn; March 1853 John Percy; 1853 A Halcrow; February 1854 William Fletcher; 1854-62 W Musgrave; 1862 Wilson.

Voyager was lost off the coast of Scotland on 26 March 1863.  

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