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Teesbridge - a general history

Masters: 1906 GFS Wright; 1906-09 JT Shaw; 1915 T Cooper; 1917 TC Tose; 1929 RE Laws.

On 25 December 1915 William Moorsom (son of Peter & Hannah) fell from Teesbridge & drowned.

Teesbridge sailed from South Shields on 20 December to load a cargo of china clay at Fowey leaving that port on 9 January bound for Philadelphia. She sent out signals of distress from 48.31N/41.00W on 21 January 1929. Assistance was sent but no trace of the vessel or her crew was found.

Lives lost January 1929;

Callaghan, F, seaman, Jarrow

Ellerington, Thomas H, 1st engineer, West Hartlepool

Fitzgerald, wireless operator, Liverpool

Garrick, S, 2nd mate, West Hartlepool

Goodman, Thomas, substitute fireman, South Shields

Hall, A, seaman, Jarrow

Hewling, W, fireman/trimmer, West Hartlepool

Holmes, D, seaman, Hebburn

Lake, Henry, galley boy, West Hartlepool

Laws, RE, master, Percy St. West Hartlepool

Mackey, John, fireman/trimmer, South Shields

Mailey, N, fireman/trimmer, Jarrow

McCann, John, fireman/trimmer, Jarrow

McCarthy, Christopher, fireman/trimmer, Jarrow

Morton, Francis, apprentice, South Shields

Radford, S, carpenter, Jarrow

Robinson, Albert, 2nd engineer, West Hartlepool

Robinson, William, mess room boy, West Hartlepool

Rowland, Arthur, apprentice, South Shields

Rowland, George, apprentice, South Shields

Thompson, M, 1st mate, Staithes

Turnbull, William L, 4th engineer, West Hartlepool

White, William, 3rd engineer, West Hartlepool

Wright, E, cook

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