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Name: TRENT
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1797
Completed: 1797
Builder: Edward Mosley & Co
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 284nrt, 94.0 x 26.9 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brigantine; (1828: Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 3576
History:
1797 Francis & Thomas Hurry, Howdon
1823 Registered at London
27/08/1828 Cuthbert & Thomas Young, South Shields; registered at Newcastle
22/05/1835 Thomas Young, North Shields and Cuthbert Young Jnr & James Young, South Shields
26/01/1837 Thomas Young, North Shields & James Young, South Shields
01/11/1846 Mary Young, North Shields & James Young, South Shields
25/03/1847 Mary Young, North Shields & Executors of Thomas Young
04/12/1848 Mary Young, North Shields
06/10/1856 Wrecked
Comments: 18/02/1836: Went ashore near Cromer, all the crew were drowned
She was later salvaged and taken into Clay
26/01/1837: Following the death of Cuthbert Young Jnr
28/07/1843: In collision with SAMARANG and drove onto the Herd Sand
The crew were rescued and she was refloated
01/11/1846: Following the death of Thomas Young, Mary was his widow
06/10/1856: Wrecked on the Sunk Middle Sand in the Swin
On a voyage from Archangel to London with a cargo of tallow
07/10/1856: Wreck auctioned
12/10/1856: Wreck brought into Wivenhoe
Waterlogged, masts gone, part bottom & sides out, unlikely to have sailed again


Morning Advertiser, Tuesday, 14/10/1856