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Admiral Benbow - a general history

Owners: February 1846 Thomas Cummings Gibson, Newcastle-on-Tyne; February 1846 Thomas and William Cargill, Edward and Jasper Capper Mounsey, Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1851 (purchased for £1,050 from TC Gibson) West Hartlepool Shipping Co (Ralph Ward Jackson (Greatham), Thomas Powell (Seaton Carew) and Edward Turnbull (Hartlepool) Hartlepool); September 1854 sold to Lynn.

Masters: 1846 William Kidd; 1846-47 Isaac Finch; October 1848 Ralph Thew; 1848-53 James Thomas Mackenzie; 1853-54 Edward Tunmore (CN. 15224 Newcastle 1856); 1857 Mellanby.

Voyages: February 1851 arrived West Hartlepool from Lowestoft.

Bound from the Tyne for Riga with a cargo of coal Admiral Benbow sank about 25 miles off Pillau on 25 September 1857. The crew were picked up by the Louise and landed at Pillau.

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