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William Chapman - a general history

Built at Sunderland. Official No. 5013: Code Letters JFVD.

Owners: 1845 Commercial Shipping Co (William Thompson, Thomas Rowell, William Lisle & Abraham Scotson) Hartlepool; 1849 Garrick, Hartlepool; 1851 Thomas Twidle Drysdale, Hartlepool;  1857 George Thompson (Bishopwearmouth) Hartlepool; April 1857 Mary Worthington (widow, South Shields) Colchester; 1868 John Robinson, South Shields; 1870 John Appleby (Seaham) Colchester.

Masters: 1845 Robert Brown; August 1845 Robert Lawn; January 1846 William Compton; March 1847 Robert Brown; March 1849 Henry Button; 1850 Robert Brown; 1851 Henry Button; 1851 Frederick Walker; July 1851 May William Burleson; May 1853 John Wallace; December 1853-62 William Emerson.

With the dissolution of the Hartlepool & Durham Shipping Co an auction was held on 15 April 1851 at the Wheat Sheaf Inn at Hartlepool to sell 12 of their vessels including William Chapman.

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