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Energy - a general history

Official No. 16054; Code Letters LVTF.

Owners: Denton & Co, Hartlepool; 1843 Huntley & Co, Hartlepool; 1850 Brown & Co, Stockton-on-Tees; 1858 Anthony Harris & Richard Brown (Middlesbrough) Stockton-on-Tees.

Masters: 1841-49 J Scaling; 1849 Phillip Newton; 1851-58 Richard Brown; 1864 Hartforth.

Miscellaneous: October 1849 Phillip Newton of Robin Hood’s Bay, master of the Energy, had a severe attack of cholera & went into his cabin & committed suicide by cutting his throat. The verdict at the inquest was temporary insanity.

Voyages; 26 January 1844 bound from Hartlepool for Chatham put into Yarmouth with loss of mainmast, head & other damage having been in collision with a large American ship off the Dudgeon; 17 August 1853 arrived at Limerick; July 1857 capsized & sank in ten fathoms of water during a heavy thunder storm at the mouth of the Restigouche; March 1860 she was moored in the Wear advertised for sale as a first rate collier; 30 October 1863 anchored off Liverpool; 25 May 1864 bound for Hamburg with a cargo of coal she was struck by a heavy squall off Hartlepool & brought into Bridlington Quay with damage & loss of masts.

 

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