Marebout - a general history

Completed October 1865; Official No. 29476.
Masters: 1865-66 Hudson; 1866 John Alcock Farrar (C.N.19035 Shields 1865); 1867-68 Slater; 1868-73 McBeath; 1874 Joseph Edward Murrell (C.N.81206 Sunderland 1862); 1875 J Ridder; 1876-78 George Alder Alton; June 1878-83 Robert Valder; 1884 Green; 1886-87 John Leisk; 1887-88 T Tindale; 1889 John Leisk; 1890 William Portbury (C.N. 25718 Liverpool 1867); 1892 J Pepperell.

Miscellaneous: 25 January 1875 during a gale in the Bay of Biscay the 2nd officer, Matthew Gray Smith, was knocked off the yard, struck his head on the topgallant sail & was killed; February 1883 stranded at Hartlepool, refloated the following day; she left South Shields on 10 April 1890 bound for Savona with 1,820 tons of coal & a crew of 23. As she was crossing the Shields Bar her cargo shifted & caused the vessel to list to starboard. The master decided to continue his journey but on the following day the vessel grounded on Leman Bank. The engines became disabled & the crew took to the boats against the master’s orders. On 12 April the vessel floated off & drifted until she stranded on Hammond’s Knoll. The following day she was towed off by tugs from Yarmouth & taken to Harwich. The master & chief engineer were found in default for not making better efforts to stay with the ship. Their certificates were suspended for three months. The vessel was insured for £11,000 & the cargo for £820.

Voyages: 8 November 1865 arrived at the Tyne to load for Alexandria; from Lisbon for Hartlepool arrived Cardiff 23 September 1869; May 1879 from Baltimore for Hull she put into Delaware Breakwater with damage to bow & loss of foretopmast; 27 June 1883 left Middlesbrough for New York; 24 January 1890 off Bardsey bound from Liverpool for Melbourne.
Bound from Hamburg for Vera Cruz with a general cargo & machinery & a crew of 22 Golden Horn was stranded on Annegada Reef off Vera Cruz, Mexico where she broke in two & sank on 22 January 1892. 16 of the crew were landed at Galveston, Texas by the steamer Avona. Three lives were lost including the master, steward & cook. None of the cargo was saved.

Lives lost January 1892:

Pepperell, J, master

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