FULL HOUSE

Railway Quay

By Colin Holden

Photo:Putting the roof on the carpenters/paint workshop. The square rigger shown front right is the "Emily Smeed"owned by J Bull.

Putting the roof on the carpenters/paint workshop. The square rigger shown front right is the "Emily Smeed"owned by J Bull.

Peter Bailey

Photo:1870-1890

1870-1890

Photograph of a postcard

Photo:Postcard posted 30th August 1907

Postcard posted 30th August 1907

Postcard

Photo:The "Lord Warden"

The "Lord Warden"

Colin Holden via Jim Strudwick.

This page was added by Colin Holden on 08/04/2008.
Comments about this page

I would love to know more about the Emily Smeed

Which I believe was a wooden ship built in 1872 by a ship builder named Smeed at Murston Sittingbourne Kent

This was a 299 ton wooden schooner 133.3 feet long with 3 masts

It had a crew of 5. The vessel was assumed to have been built using recycled wood as at that time it was difficult to obtain seasoned wood.

Later it was owned by J H Bull and Company and registered in Newhaven. Bull had a contract to supply coal from the NE of England to the Eastbourne Gas Company.

My 2nd G Uncle Joseph Holder from Newhaven died at the age of 31yrs while on this ship at sea on the 24th October 1882.

I would like to know if this was as a result of a ship wreck or was lost overboard.  If anyone can help please.

Thanks

By Mel Allen
On 22/06/2021

 

Further to my comments above.

Two Sailors drowned in the North Sea on that fateful day due the loss of the ships sails.

The 2nd sailor was a 42 year old " N Peterson "

Editors comment:-

It seems neither of the deaths are listed in the GRO registers. Mel

 

By Mel Allen
On 22/06/2021
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