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North Star - a general history

Built at Sunderland: Official No. 24477: Code Letters NWVQ.

Owners:
1839-43 Hayton, Sunderland
1843-1868 Henry Fowler, Scarborough
by 1874 Benjamin Fowler, Scarborough
1875 John Harland (St Hilda Street) Hartlepool
March 1875 John Tucker, Hartlepool
1876 John Harland, Hartlepool
December 1883 Dixon T Sharper, West Hartlepool
March 1884 Dixon T Sharper, George Barnes (died 23 October 1884)
Mark Dring & John Pattison, West Hartlepool
July 1888 Dixon T Sharper, Sarah Barnes, Mark Dring & John Pattison, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1839 J Legende; 1865 Daviett; 1884 S Arnold.

Bound from Hartlepool for London with a cargo of coal she stranded on the Gunfleet Sand & was assisted into Harwich very leaky on 6 November 1883; January 1888 she was in collision with the schooner Forager which was towed into Yarmouth with head gear damage.

Advertised for sale by auction on 17 April 1888 at Dring & Pattison’s Slipway, Middleton, Hartlepool.

North Star was broken up & her British Register closed on 6 November 1888.

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