Carlisle

Completed May 1889: Code Letters LPFQ: Code Letters LFQK.

Owners: 1889 Livingston, Conner & Co, West Hartlepool; 1899 Christian Salveson & Co, Leith; 1914 T Fierro & Sons, Gijon, Spain–renamed Alfonso Fierro.

Masters: 1890 Leonard Richard Conner (b. 1841 Greenwich); 1892-97 EG Bowles; 1897-99 Hans Nielson Jessen (b. 1855 Nordby, Denmark); 1909 J Begg.

Shields Daily News, Monday, March 4^th, 1895:
STRANDING OF A WEST HARTLEPOOL STEAMER. At West Hartlepool on Saturday official inquiry was opened into the circumstances attending the stranding of the steamer Carlisle, owned by Messrs. Livingston and Connor, of West Hartlepool. The steamer left Rouen on the 2nd February for the Tyne in water ballast, and early on the morning of the 6th went ashore between Seaham Harbour and Sunderland. She was got off three hours afterwards, and proceeded to the Tyne. The casualty was attributed to thick weather. Evidence was taken, and the Court adjourned.

Robert Livingston and George Steel traded as managers and shipbrokers under the title of G. Steel & Co. The partnership was dissolved  in April 1889 with George carrying on trading as G. Steel & Co. In the same year Robert Livingston and Leonard Richard Conner went into partnership as Livingston, Conner & Co. R. Livingston & Co., and L.R. Conner & Co., were founded in 1899 with  offices at Church Street, West Hartlepool with the partnership of Livingston, Conner & Co., officially dissolved in July 1900. L.R. Conner & Co. ceased trading in 1916.

Family History:

Leonard Richard Conner was born in c1842 at Greenwich. He married Sarah in 1865 and, by 1881, was living at Stranton with his wife & six children. By the following decade the family were living in Clifton Avenue, West Hartlepool. He died at Hartlepool on 25 July 1918. In his will he left £63, 792.