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William Lees - a general history

William Lees 1833-1854

Sunderland: one deck; two & trysail masts; square stern; carvel built wood snow; 199g; 76.0 x 22.0 x 13.8.

Owners: 1834 Lees & Co, Sunderland; William Hodgson Elstob, Bishopwearmouth; September 1850 Robert Elstob Hutton & William Hodgson Elstob (Camberwell, Surrey) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1834-41 T Potter; 1850-51 George Storrow.

Voyages: 1834-41 Sunderland for Archangel; January 1851 arrived Hartlepool from London

William Lees was lost in the Swin of King Channel on 3 January 1854.  

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