STORM AND COMPANY
SHIPS OWNED BY MILLS
ALBION
Brigantine. 74 tons, built by G & N Langborne
Owners 1978 N & G Langborne, the latter too ill to register
Owners 1801 John Watson, Thomas Marwood (merchant), Robert
Anderson (mariner).
Owners 1825 Thomas Marwood, Richard Ripley (surgeon),
RichardWillis.
Owners 1837 Thomas Mills of Whitby (merchant|mariner) Lost
December 1848.
ALEXANDER
Brigantine. 212 tons, built at Sunderland 1841. Registered
Whitby 1949
Owner 1849 Isaac Mills
Owners 1861 Isaac Mills, John Mills & Will Levitt. Lost near
Heligoland 3nd April 1870.
ALLISON
Brigantine. 191 tons, built at Sunderland 1838. Registered
Whitby 1876.
Owner Thomas Mills of Robin Hood’s Bay. Lost Dugeness beach
January 1879
AMORETTE
Brigantine. 264 tons, Prince Edward Island, 1872, registered
Whitby 1890.
Owner Isaac Mills. Sunk by collision one mile south west of the
SouthSand Light, Goodwins July 1891.
BETSY
Brigantine 91 tons, built by William Jackson.
Owner 1824 James Maylor, Brig
Owners 1849 Isaac Mills and Robert Davidson of Broughton
(farmer). Registered at Ipswich 1849.
BETSY & SALLY
Brigantine, 81 tons built Eskdale by Cato & Co.
Owner 1803 Matt Stephenson of Ellerby (farmer).Sold to Ed Wood,
Runswick
Owners 1815 Frances Spencelagh and IsaacMills of Robin
Hood’s Bay.Lost at Cley 1821.
CLARA JANE
Brigantine, 155 tons. Built Sunderland 1849 Registered Whitby
1847
Owner John Mills of Robin hood’s Bay. When bound from London
to Hartlepool in February 1868 it sprung a leak in heavy weather
and was run on shore on the island of . Borkum.
CYRUS
Brigantine, 126 tons. Wear 1806, registered at Whitby June
1823.
Owner Isaac Mills
Owners 1836, Isaac Mills & Will Ranfield Horwich registered
Hartlepool 6 April 1854.
CZARINA
Brigantine, 222 tons, built Sunderland 1851 registered at
Whitby 1866
Owner Robert Mills. Lost near Coquet Island February 1871
ELEANOR
Schooner, 165 tons built by J & W Campion
Owners 1838, Campion & T.Wilson
Owners 1864, Mills & Co of Robin Hood’s Bay. Lost off
the Humber 4 December 1869.
ELIZA
Brigantine, 165 tons, Pugwash Nova Scotia; registered Whitby
1839.
Owner, James Pearson of Whitby
Owners 1848, Joss Bovill and James Hartley
Owners 1854, George Russel, Robin Hood’s Bay, and George J
Russel
Owners 1855, George Russel and James Hill.
Eliza, Captain John Mills, left Newcastle 26 September 1863 for Calais with coal. On Thursday 1 October at 0.30 am, in a south gale, struck what was thought to be a sunken wreck on the north edge of the long sand. After striking several times she came off and sank in deep water. The crew took to the ship’s small boat and got on board the smack Marco Polo and were landed at Harwich. The ship was insured for £800. It is supposed the sunken wreck was that named in a notice to mariners Number 465 of 26 February 1863.
FRANCES ANN
Brigantine 259 tons. A prize condemned at Antigua 28 June
1813; registered Whitby 1843.
Owners Isaac Mills of Robin Hood’s Bay & Will Randsfield
Frances Ann, Captain Harrison, sailing from West Hartlepool for London, was towed into Grimsby 29 October 1861 by the smack Petrel of Hull with the loss of foremast, foretopmast, yards and sails.
1865 Insured Robin Hood’s Bay. Owners Isaac Mills &
Co. Master Francis Harrison.
Owners 1875, Matt Storm. Francis Harrison, James Skerry, John
Wake, Chris Harrison, Francis banks, John Weighill, Eliza
Ebblewhite, Chris marwood, Matt Wellburn. Broken up 1877.
GOLDEN SHEAF
Brigantine, 225 tone, built Aberdeen 1865. Registered Whitby
1873.
Owners, JamesMills, Pillington, and George Grange Turnbull,
Whitby. Later owned at Whitstable then sold to Faversham and
registered there 1881.
HEART OF OAK
Barque, 139 tons built by J & W Campion.
Owners, Campion & Mills registered Swansea 1842. Run down in
the channel by the screw steamer Lady Jocelyn and 10 lives
lost 1866. Captain T Puckrin.
HIPPOGRIFF
Brigantine 196 tons, built Sunderland 1832, registered Whitby
1864.
Owner Thomas Mills of Robin Hood’s Bay; master William
Mills. Lost of Yarmouth.
MARYS
Schooner 126 tons, built Selby 1839. registered Whitby 1861.
Owner Thomas Mills of Robin Hood’s Bay. Abandoned in a
sinking state 50 miles from the Spurn November 1863
PHILO
Barque, 344 tons. Built Sunderland 1853
Owner, John Mills, Sunderland and Bedlington
PHOENIX
Shallop, 55 tons, built Great Yarmouth 1767, registered Whitby
1807
Owner, Thomas Atkinson MM of Whitby. Lost 1815.
REGALIA
Brigantine, 186 tons. Built Montrose 1835, registered Whitby
1854
Owners Will Taylor, Ann Storm, Robert Mills.
Owner, 1862 Will Trattles, Susannah Liddle. Lost in North Sea
October 1869
ROSE
Brigantine, 185 tons. Built Sunderland 1848, registered Whitby
March 1869
Owner, John Mills of Robin Hood’s Bay. Ashore at Hartlepool
December 1874.Broken up Sunderland 1906.
VESTA
Brigantine, 177 tons, built Sunderland 1827, registered Whitby
1856
Owners, T and RMills.
Owner, 1866 Robert Mills. Lost in Swansea bay March 1866.
WILLIAM RANFIELD
Brigantine, 177 tons, built by W Hobkirk
Owners, Isaac Mills and W Ranfield. Lost
YAR
Brigantine, 155 tons. Built Sunderland 1842, registered Whitby
1850.
Owners, T and R Mills. Total loss on Kessingland beach,
Lowestoft, December 1855.
The above was contributed by Colin Narramore