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Admiral Codrington - a general history

Official No. 5290: Code Letters JHBQ.

Owners: 1846 Thomas Cummings Gibson, London; October 1847 George Parsons, Ipswich; January 1848 George Parsons & Frederick Eausome, Ipswich: 1849 Thomas Bourdillion, London; June 1853 Ralph Ward Jackson, Greatham & Robinson Watson (Stockton-on-Tees) Hartlepool; July 1854-64 Maltman William Stevens Shaw (merchant, Lynn) Rochester; by 1867 William Patten Haymen (Boley Hill) Rochester.

Masters: 1847 Irving; 1847 Fishwick; 1848-54 George Barnes (C.N. 4144); April 1854-65 George Stroud; 1869-71 Wilmore/Gilmore.

Voyages: 11 January 1852 with a cargo of coal she encountered severe weather off Flamborough Head & sustained damage. She was towed to Scarborough by the fishing smack Ebeneezer; 30 March 1863 from Rochester for Hartlepool; 4 November 1863 from New York for Hartlepool; 14 February 1868 arrived at Rochester from Hartlepool; 13 June 1868 arrived at Rochester from Seaham.

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