Addington

Completed January 1884: Official No. 89513: Code Letters JDFW.

Owners: 1883 Hinton Bros. & Co, London; 1886 T. Nelson & Son, London; 1889 G.B. Harland & Co (Albert Terrace) West Hartlepool; 1902 Robson Brown & Sons, London; 1918 Arthur Morphy, London; 1923 Rederi A/B Botte (E.B. Borjesson) Lidingo, Villastad, Sweden–renamed Botte.

Masters: 1885-87 J Blackburn; 1887-89 Topper; 1890-95 WR Willis; 1895-99 G Harland; 1900 E Witten; 1909 R Burdon.

Voyages: 5 February 1898 9 days out of Baltimore bound for Bergen, Norway with 9,000 bushels of rye Addington arrived at St John’s, Newfoundland with her bow stove in by an ice floe & her forepeak filled with water. The accident had taken place at Cape Race the previous day.

The company of G.B. Harland & Co. was formed in 1883 with their first steamer Duchess. As well as owning eleven ships throughout the time the company traded they also managed ships.

Family History:

George Blenkhorn Harland was born in 1848 at Sandsend, Yorkshire to parents Thomas and Mary (nee Blenkhorn). He married Isabella Marshall at Hinderwell in 1874. On the 1881 census he was listed as a commercial clerk and the family were living at Milton Road, Stranton. By 1891, still living at the same address, he was listed as being a shipowner. At the time of his death on 6 August 1924 aged 76 George was living at ‘Brooklyn’ Grange Road, West Hartlepool. The family also owned a house at Glaisdale where they spent much of their time. He was survived by his widow and five children. On his death he did not leave a will but his effects amounted to £171,577.