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Name: HAWKHOPE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 10/09/1870
Completed: 10/1870
Builder: Middle Dock Co
Yard: West Holborn, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 346grt, 337nrt, 125.4 x 25.2 x 15.1ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 62362
History:
04/10/1870 Middle Dock Co, South Shields; registered at Newcastle
19/01/1882 Wrecked
Comments: 04/10/1870: Middle Dock Co was Thomas Henderson & William George Woods
16/12/1870: George Edward Henderson joined the partnership
31/05/1875: William George Woods left the partnership
26/08/1880: Thomas Henderson died
18/01/1881: George Edward Henderson became sole owner
19/01/1882: Wrecked on Ile de Vache, near Aux Cayes, Haiti
On a voyage from Aruba, Venezuela to Hull with a cargo of phosphate rock