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Meliora - a general history

Official No. 19142; Code Letters MQSC.

Owners: William Gray (draper), Hartlepool; 1864-82 John & Robert Gray & Co (Blyth) North Shields.

Masters: 1858-62 James Cooper; 1863-65 Williams (C.N. 19142); 1865-66 John Dinsdale (C.N. 16288); 1867-70 Thomas Bartholomew Armstrong (C.N. 7596 1854); 1871-75 John Hooke (C.N. 24917); 1877-78 Sutton; 1879 Smith; August 1880-81 Utting Fulcher (C.N. 30246 South Shields 1871).

Voyages: October 1860 arrived Hong Kong from Shields; 4 February 1870 left Ostend for Sunderland; 1871 Blyth, Portugal, Spain & Hull; 1872 Shields for Hull; 1872 Blyth for Straudmollen; April 1879 at Memel from Blyth; September 1880 at North Shields; November 1880 at Elsinore from Wyburg; October 1881 from Hartlepool for Swinemunde the crew of Meliora rescued the crew of six of the Dutch schooner Gezener that was in a sinking state in the North Sea.

Not registered in the UK as Meliora after 1882 so probably broken up.

Crew October/November 1871:

Glz, Berandino, ordinary seaman

Hartwell, William, cook/steward, 39

Hooke, John, master, 33, Clay, Norfolk

Jackman, Henry, able seaman, 24, Isle of Wight

Johnsen, C, able seaman, 33

Matthews, John, mate, 27, Salthouse

Petre, James, able seaman, 20, Aberdeen

Villier, William, apprentice, 19

Ward, Phillip, able seaman, 21, Yarmouth

Witztre, Johan, able seaman, 29, Prussia

Crew October 1872:

Barlecus, Thomas, able seaman, 24, Amsterdam

Harvey, Thomas, mate, 30, Plymouth

Hooke, John, master, 33, Clay, Norfolk

Le Brocy, Philip, ordinary seaman, 19, Jersey

Maitland, Andrew, ordinary seaman, 20, Leith

Villiers, William, apprentice, 19

Walker, Thomas W, able seaman, 32, Portsmouth

Witztre, Johan, able seaman, 30, Prussia

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