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Monkwearmouth - a general history

Built at Sunderland. : Official No. 22564: Code Letters NMBG.

Masters: 1840 Bourne; 1844 Thomas Nellis; 1845 Thomas Kelly; 1847 Thomas Nellis; February 1848-50 Robert Cummings; March 1850 David Blacklaw; April 1851 Benjamin Beckwith; May 1851-54 Henry Pullen; 1864-66 G Allen; 1875 Wilson; 1877 Chambers.

With the dissolution of the Hartlepool & Durham Shipping Co an auction was held on 15 April 1851 at the Wheat Sheaf Inn at Hartlepool to sell all 12 of their vessels including the Monkwearmouth.

Voyages: 1840 Stockton-on-Tees for Quebec; 1844 Hartlepool coaster; 10 May 1847 from L’Orient for Quebec; 1853 Shields for France.

Monkwearmouth sailed from Sunderland on 30 April 1877 with a cargo of coal. On 19 May she ran ashore near Reval & filled with water. Some of her rigging & stores were saved.

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