Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Monday, November 4th, 1878:
COLLISION AT SEA. A WEST HARTLEPOOL BARQUE ABANDONED. Late Saturday or early yesterday morning, a collision occurred about 14 miles south-east of Tynemouth Castle, between the screw steamer Celeste and the barque Penelope, both of West Hartlepool. It appears that the Celeste left the Tyne on Saturday night bound for Genoa, and while proceeding on her course came into collision with the barque Penelope, bound from the Baltic with cargo of timber to Hartlepool. The barque appears to have been so seriously damaged that the master considered it advisable to leave her and get his crew on board the steamer. The Celeste afterwards bore ashore, and about 2 o’clock yesterday morning the crew, nine in number, were taken off by a pilot coble belonging to Robert Chambers, which contained, besides the owner, Daird Young and Jacob Wells, all pilots residing at South Shields. The crew were afterwards landed at Sunderland by the coble. The barque being still afloat when she was abandoned, steamtugs were sent out in quest of her, but whether she sank or has been recovered is not yet known. The Penelope is a vessel of 303 tons register, was built at Sunderland in the year 1849, and was owned by Mr Michael Pennock Lund, West Hartlepool. The Celeste is the property of Mr J. W. S. Manners, Victoria Terrace, West Hartlepool. The cause of the collision has not yet transpired, but we understand the depositions of Captain Booth will be taker, to-day.
The barque Penelope, Captain Booth, belonging to West Hartlepool, was towed into Hartlepool yesterday afternoon at 3 p.m. by the tugs “Great Emperor”, and “North Star”, deal laden, having been in collision with a steamer off the Tyne on Sunday.