| Name: | RICHMOND |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 21/01/1871 |
| Completed: | 03/1871 |
| Builder: | Schlesinger, Davis & Co |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 28 |
| Dimensions: | 1234grt, 769nrt, 229.8 x 32.2 x 17.9ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (30 & 59 x 36ins) 130hp |
| Engines by: | T Clark & Co, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 65561 |
| History: | |
| 29/03/1871 | Watts, Milburn & Co, London |
| 1875 | Charles Mitchell, Newcastle |
| 1877 | Watts, Milburn & Co, London |
| 1879 | Watts, Ward & Co, London |
| 30/06/1893 | Thomas S Leinster & Matthew Thompson et al; registered at North Shields |
| 06/12/1894 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | A subcontract from Charles Mitchell. Mitchell yard number 245 |
| 30/06/1893: 61/64 shares purchased for £4765, valuing ship at £5000 | |
| 03/1894: Deliberately sunk at Jarrow Slake to put out fire in the cargo of esparto grass | |
| Fire was believed to have been started by the vessel's managing owner Thomas Leinster | |
| 06/04/1894: Vessel raised and subsequently repaired by Readheads at their West Dock | |
| 06/12/1894: Wrecked under Burniston Cliff, 3 miles north of Scarborough | |
| On a voyage from Rotterdam to the Tyne in ballast |
Above photo shows RICHMOND submerged on the Tyne. Photo courtesy of John R Short
Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 07/04/1894
Above is an extract from the formal enquiry into
the loss of the RICHMOND off Scarborough