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Stranton - a general history
Official No. 4639; Code Letters JDKG.
Owners: 1850 William, Thomas Bell, Robert & Errington Bell Ord (Sunderland) John Punshon Denton, Hartlepool; October 1850 John Wallace, Robert Rochester, John Punshon Denton & George Denton, Hartlepool; March 1853 Edward Ladd Betts (Westminster) London: 1854 Andrews & Co (Whitby) London; February 1856 Matthew & Thomas Storm, William Steel & William Bedlington (all 16 shares each) Whitby.
Masters: July 1850 John Bethel Shields (C.N.14784 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1856); October 1850-52 John Wallace; 1852-55 John Bethel Shields; 1855 Charles William Goddard (C.N.1742 London 1849); 1860 Storm.
Miscellaneous: December 1851 a boy apprentice, Thomas Coy Robinson of Pinchbeck, fell from the vessel & drowned at Hartlepool.
Voyages: 17 January 1851 from Hartlepool for London with a cargo of coal; 23 June 1853 arrived Gravesend from Christiania.
Bound from Hartlepool for London she was in collision with the Alexander off Cromer on 14 November 1860. Stranton sank shortly after the crew took to their boats.
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