Oriental - a general history

Official No. 5441; Code Letters JHQR.

Owners: JP Denton, Thomas Young, Henry & Charles Anthony Taylor, Hartlepool; 1851 JP Denton, William Ord, Thomas Bell Ord, Errington Bell Ord & Robert Ord, Sunderland; 1853 George Geipel (merchant) George Green (doctor) & William Hodgson (bank agent) Hartlepool; June 1855 Robert & Thomas Dixon, Sunderland; July 1856 George Wright; South Shields; March 1865 (bought for £1,500) William Forcer (died 4 May 1866); November 1867 Alfred Simey, Sunderland; January 1869 Thomas Hay, Sunderland; June 1871 William Robinson & Josiah Keighley, Sunderland; by 1875 James Turpie & Co, Sunderland.

Masters: 1851-52 Lawrence Tulloch (C.N.5056 Shields 1851); September 1852 John Henderson Taylor; June 1854 Charles Henderson (Liverpool); March 1854 William Gauntley Saunders (Cardiff); 1855 Macintosh; 1856-57 Saunderson; 1858-60 Mitchell; 1861-67 W Fortune; 1867 Straker; 1869-70 Hayes; 1874-75 Joseph Sanderson.

Voyages: 1852-55 Hartlepool to Mediterranean; 6 October 1869 during dense fog she was in collision with the Lowestoft schooner Navigator & had to put into Sunderland with loss of jibboom & bowsprit; 23 June 1855 from Southampton carrying emigrants arriving Port Adelaide 1 November 1855; July 1871 Shields for Carthagena; September 1875 from Quebec.

Bound from London for St Johns, New Brunswick Oriental was abandoned waterlogged & in a sinking condition on 19 November 1875. The master ordered the crew to set her alight as she was in a main shipping path. The White Star Line steamer Baltic rescued the crew of 26 & left Oriental in a mass of flames.

Crew November 1875:

Barnes, James Broad, chief mate, Peckham

Bramwell, John, boatswain

Johnson, ? able seaman

Mason, ? able seaman

Peterson, ? able seaman

Roebuck, ? able seaman

Sanderson, Joseph, master

Skelter, David, 2nd mate

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