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Juanita - a general history

Official No. 27833.

Owners: William Gray (draper) & James Smith (master mariner) Hartlepool; December 1864 William Gray, James Smith & Jane Hall, Hartlepool; September 1871 William Gray, Hartlepool; September 1871 Thomas Fanning Evans (Anglesea) Hartlepool; November 1871 Thomas Fanning Evans, James Reise Watkins, Hugh Roberts & Hugh Jones (all Anglesea) Hartlepool; 1882 William Thomas (Anglesea) Hartlepool; 18 August 1883 Edward Jopling (Woolston, Hants) Hartlepool; 20 August 1883 William Thomas (Anglesea) Hartlepool.

Masters: 1860-70 J Smith; 1871-74 Peter Henry Bartols (b. 1822 Hartlepool C.N. 17945 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1858); 1874-5 O Owens; 1875-78 R Williams; 1878-82 W Lewis; 1882-86 O Rowlands; 1887-90 Thomas; 1890-96 J Thornhill; 1897 G Webb.

Voyages: August 1860 from Akyab for Liverpool; October 1869 from Sunderland for Bombay; 1871-78 from Hartlepool for the Mediterranean; 6 December 1886 between Whitby & Hartlepool she was in collision with the Falmouth schooner Cicerone who lost a member of their crew.

Bound from Sunderland for Southampton with a cargo of coal & a crew of eight Juanita sank after a collision in dense fog with the Stockton steamer Claudia at Dudgeon Shoal, Wells-Next-the-Sea on 8 August 1897. The Claudia picked up all the crew & landed them at Middlesbrough.

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