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Hearts of Oak

 

 

Temperley Steam

Shipping Co Ltd

 

MELBRIDGE and WOODBRIDGE

 

MELBRIDGE
2,868 grt

314ft x 40ft 6ins

Built 1891  E. Withy & Co, West Hartlepool, Yard Nr 180

As CALCUTTA CITY

For Chr. Furness, West Hartlepool.

1891 Renamed MELBRIDGE; United Steam Shipping Co

         (J. Temperley & Co), London

1900 Temperley Steam Shipping Co.

1907 Abandoned in a sinking condition.; position 46N : 9W

        on voyage Cardiff – Montevideo, with a cargo of coke.

The Times : 23rd February 1907

There arrived at Plymouth yesterday, Captain Dilly and 14 of the crew of the steamer MELBRIDGE, which was abandoned in a sinking condition on February 14th whilst on a voyage from Cardiff to the River Plate. When she was abandoned there was 7ft of water in the engine-room, and several of the boats had been smashed. The crew were taken off by the German steamer CROSTOFELS.

WOODBRIDGE
3,605 grt

340ft x 48ft 2ins

Built 1900  Irvine's SB & DD Co. Ltd, West Hartlepool

Yard Nr 113

For Temperley & Co., London.
1915 Baird Shipping Co Ltd, London.
1916 Malford Shipping Co (P. D. Todd), London.
1917 10^th December : Wrecked between Kristiansand and Kvitholm Light

         on voyage Archangel to Sharpness with a cargo of  timber.

 

 

Raymond Forward