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Talitha - a general history

Built at Stockton-on-Tees: Official No. 3555: Code Letters HTRW.

Owners: 1842 Chapman, Scarborough; by 1857 Nicholas Hezelton, R Wyrill, G Fowler & W Ascough, Scarborough; by 1865 James Fitzwilliam (Thomas Street) Scarborough; 1869 F English & Dixon Taylor Sharper, Hartlepool.

Masters: 1842-48 Chapman; 1865 Fitzwilliam; 1869 Pearson.

Voyages: 1843 Stockton-on-Tees for London; 1844-48 London for Lisbon; September 1869 assisted into Grimsby leaky

Bound from Hartlepool for Rochester in ballast & with a crew of four Talitha drove ashore during gales off the Suffolk coast on 10 December 1869. All four crew saved.

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