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Isabella Heron - a general history

Official No. 2407; Code Letters HPBL.

Owners: 1842 Denton & Co, Hartlepool; 1848 James & George Heron, Dixon & Co (Blyth) Shields; by 1872 T Maddison (Waterloo, Blyth) Shields.

Masters: 1842-43 Champlin; 1844-47 George Dixon; 1848 Couch; 1848-66 William Dixon (died at Honfleur November 1866 aged 43); 1867-68 Campbell; 1869 Dixon; 1872 Smith.

Miscellaneous: September 1858 bound from Calais for Blyth an apprentice, Arthur Wright, died at sea.

Voyages: 27 January 1846 arrived at Gravesend from Hamburg; 15 April 1847 arrived at Liverpool from Cronstadt; 21 October 1847 bound from Charlestown for London she put into Hartlepool very leaky having been ashore the previous night; 23 October 1848 bound from Charlestown for London she stranded near Hartlepool. Her place of stranding is marked on the Admiralty Chart held at Hartlepool Reference Library.

Bound from Blythe for Chatham with a cargo of coal & a crew of six the Isabella Heron foundered in a heavy gale about 23 miles east of the Outer Dousing Light on Tuesday, 10 December 1872. The crew were picked up by the Whitstable schooner Sancho Panza & transferred to the motor boat Henry & landed at Dover.

J Baker, master of the Sancho Panza,by public vote, was awarded £2 10s for the rescue.

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