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Eliza Kirkbride - a general history

Built at Stockton-on-Tees: Official No. 22478: Code Letters NLQK.

Owners: 1838 Richardson, Stockton-on-Tees; 1840 Hartlepool Original Shipping Co (William George Jackson & William Lisle) Stockton-on-Tees; 1844 William George Jackson & William Lisle, Hartlepool; by 1860 William George Jackson & John Callender, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1838-40 Whitfield; 1841-43 Borkwood; 1844 J Pattison; 1844-45 Hall; 1845 Ralph Metcalfe; 1847-52 Alexander Greig; April 1852 Joseph Metcalfe; February 1853-60 James Garrick.

Voyages: 1838-40 Stockton-on-Tees for London; 1842 Hartlepool for Hamburg; 1843 Hartlepool for the Baltic; 1844-46 Hartlepool for Quebec; 1847 Hartlepool for the Mediterranian.

With a crew of nine & the master’s wife on 4 October 1860 Eliza Kirkbride was stranded & lost at Libau on the Russian coast. All lives lost.

Lives lost October 1860:

Bain, John, mate, 33, Scotland

Garrick, James, master, Hartlepool

Garrick, Mrs (master’s wife) Hartlepool

Harland, William, seaman, Whitby

Jones, Alfred, seaman, Hartlepool

Mahoney, John, cook, 58, Hartlepool

Mazwell, Edward, seaman, Whitby

Three apprentices

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