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Endeavour - a general history

Official No. 23537; Code Letters NSCD.

Owners: William Watson, Hartlepool; May 1848 William Richardson (master mariner) & David Blacklaw (died May 1864) Hartlepool; August 1864 William Richardson & Mary Ann Blacklaw (widow) Hartlepool; August 1864 William Richardson & Thomas Turnbull, Hartlepool; April 1865 Robert Lawn & John Lawn (farmer, Scarborough) Hartlepool.

Masters: December 1845-47 William Watson junior; December 1847-50 William Richardson; November 1850 William Emmerson; July 1851 William Richardson; September 1852 William Dawkins; March 1853 William Richardson; October 1853 Charles Holbrook; November 1853 Thomas Fairburn; June 1854 George Harrison; March 1855 William Allen; 1864 William Blackburn; 1866 Horn.

Voyages; 29 January 1846 from Hartlepool for London with a cargo of coal she was run into & damaged in Corton Roads & grounded on Newcombe Sand; 1850-51 Leith for London; 1853 Hartlepool for London.

In November 1866 bound from Bjorneberg for Seaham Harbour with timber, near the entrance to the Baltic, Endeavour was run into by an unknown foreign vessel during a gale. She was split nearly in two, her mainmast carried away & she would have foundered but for the buoyancy of her cargo of timber. All sail was set on the foremast & the master ordered her run ashore on the island of Bornholm from where the crew were rescued using rocket apparatus. The vessel was partly insured in local clubs.

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