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Friendship - a general history

Built at Jacobstadt, Finland: previously Wansskapen (of Ulesborg): Official No. 5133: Code Letters JGLD.

Owners: 1854 George Pyman, Thomas Hood (pilot) Francis English, Charles Smith & John Smurthwaite (blacksmith) West Hartlepool; by 1859 Coulson Hood, Charles Smith & Gregory Husband, Hartlepool; January 1860 Coulson Hood & Charles Smith, Hartlepool; April 1861 John Pattison & Vasey Orrah (groom, Scarborough) Hartlepool; August 1863 Vasey Orrah & William Bell, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1854 Charles Smith (C.N. 47227); 1856-57 Alexander Pyman (C.N. 52161); 1858 John Mead (C.N. 43838); 1858 Holden; 1859 Gregory Husband (C.N. 73800); 1860-72 William Bell.

On 17 November 1872, Joseph Banter, a seaman aboard Friendship, was presented with a silver medal of the second class & a parchment diploma by the French Government for bravery for distinguished services whilst his vessel lay at Calais on 17 November 1871.

Bound from Newport, Wales for Cork Friendship was abandoned in a sinking state between Tuscar & the Smalls on 6 October 1872. The crew were picked up by the Peter Maxwell & landed at Savannah on 27 November 1872.

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