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HOAD Bros. Shipbuilders of Rye & Sandwich

c. 1823 Shipwright, James HOAD (born 24th June, 1787 in Wittersham, Kent, - died 1851 in Rye), arrived in Rye with his sons; William Daniel HOAD (born 1810). (aged14), James Collins HOAD (born c.1816). and Robert Jones HOAD (born 1821), from Rochester, Kent, where he may have served with the Sea Fencibles.James HOAD snr. was soon almost certainly working for Nicholas Harvey, who had a ship building yard in Rock Channel Rye. In time the HOAD family were to become prominent shipbuilders in Rye. The youngest son, Lewis HOAD (born c. 1826) was born shortly after they returned to Rye.1838 James HOAD sets up his own yard on the Winchelsea Road, i.e. on the west bank of Strand Quay Rye.1843 James HOAD now takes on his sons, William Daniel HOAD (born 1810). (aged 31), and presumably at a later stage, Lewis HOAD (born c. 1826) who was then sixteen, as business partners. At this time the company is called James HOAD & Sons. They specialised in building sailing trawlers, built at Rye for Ramsgate, Lowestoft and other east coast ports.1845 (Post Office Directory for Sandwich, lists) James Hoad & Son Ship Builders. James HOAD takes on an additional shipyard outside Rye; in his case at Sandwich in Kent. The old HOAD business in Rye is continued by James' sons, Lewis HOAD (born c. 1826) (aged 21) and William Daniel HOAD (born 1810) (aged 36). This yard now becomes known as HOAD Bros. They set up the Sandwich yard at a period in time when it was thought shipbuilding in Sandwich was not viable. Shipyard was in Corporation Yard.1847 Trade Directories for Sandwich (Bagshaw) Hoad Brothers Ship Builders The Quay1851 James HOAD dies (in February) and his Sandwich yard there is taken over by (his son?) James Collins HOAD (born 1816 Rye, East Sussex. Death 1891 aged 75)1852 Trade Directories for Sandwich (Post Office) Hoad Brothers Ship Builders The Quay1852 -55 The HOAD Bros. of Rye built fourteen vessels over 150 tons, between 1852 and 1855 among them the 326 ton barque Chrysalis for the Australia trade.James Collins HOAD shipbuilder at Sandwich in 1851. (Sandwich Census), which states that James HOAD age 34, shipbuilder, employed 10 apprentices and 15 men, born Rye, who at the time was living at 95 Knightrider Street, Sandwich.1854 to 1861 HOADs Sandwich was being run by William Daniel HOAD (born 1810 in Rochester, Kent) from 1854 to 1861 when William Daniel HOAD (James HOAD's eldest son) went bankrupt. In the last year of HOAD's trading at Sandwich, the name of the shipyard was under HOAD Bros. of Sandwich which were the same HOAD Bros as those working in the Rye shipyards. The Sandwich shipyard belonging to HOADs was sited in the Corporation yard and was taken over by PAIN in l862.The money required to maintain the essential works to keep the harbour fully effective, started to run out , after the completion of railway works undertaken by the South Eastern Railway.1855 Trade Directories for Sandwich (Post Office) Hoad Brothers Shipwrights & Coal Merchants, Strand Street1855 In 1855 the Government emgaged in the Crimean War commissioned 3 ships in Rye one to HOAD ad the other two to the other Rye shipyards. The ship was a mortar ship costing £7,000 launched in 1856.1859 Trade Directories for Sandwich (Post Office) William Hoad Shipwright, Strand Street1862 Trade Directories for Sandwich (Post Office) James Hoad & Brothers Shipbuilders, Corporation Yard1882 Following a particularly bad storm in December 1882 the entrance to the harbour was practically blocked and an approach to the Public Works Loan Board was stymied when the Borough of Rye refused to guarantee it.1884 The Hoad Brothers shipyard closed in 1884 upon the Hoad's bankruptcy.Two of my direct HOAD ancesters Henry HOAD (born 1790 in Wittersham, died 1863) & Henry HOAD (born abt. 1815, died 1873) were shipbuilders and shipwrights, probably in the family firm created by James HOAD a brother of the first Henry HOAD.A shipwright, built ships! He was a specialised carpenter, who built wooden boats, literaly laying the "bones" or "skeleton" of the ship. The term passed on to metal shipbuilders too, in fact eventually, anyone, who builds a boat or ship of any material.Sandwich Shipyard.In addition to the Rye shipyard HOAD Brothers also built at Sandwich, in Kent from 1845. I am still to find out more about what was built there. James Collins HOAD (born 1816 Rye, East Sussex. Death 1891 aged 75 ) shipbuilder at Sandwich in 1851. (Sandwich Census), which states that James HOAD age 34, shipbuilder, employed 10 apprentices and 15 men, born Rye, who at the time was living at 95 Knightrider Street, Sandwich.

Yards like this, on the river bank, beyond the Strand Quay at Rye, were building fishing smacks of Sussex oak, until the early years of the 20th Century.

Shipbuilding at Rye

Rye Harbour is not a natural shipbuilding port but with the dredging of the entrance and other improvements it allowed the flourishing of a number of shipyards and associated industries.

Church of the Holy Spirit, old Harbour Rye

Church of the Holy Spirit, old Harbour Rye

The following details on Hoad-built ships are taken from the Customs & Excise Boat Registrations and from information supplied to me by various contributers. Please note the detail cannot be entirely vouched as certain :-


ALARM

Ship description : Schooner Sailing vessels 108 tons

Year built : 1861

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. ship builders Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : S. Burgess Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


FLIRT

Ship description : Schooner, 151 registered tons. 91.6 x 23.6 x 11.5.

Year built : 1862 at Rye.

Builder: Hoads Of Rye

45238 FLIRT Signal Code V.C.L.S.

The coast guard report of her wreck lists her as built by Hoads Of Rye Another source (the book "The Merchant Ships of Whitstable ") gives the entry details listed above.


PEACE

Official Number : 45093

Ship description : 45.46 tons 63' x 17' x 9'.3"

Year built : 1862 at Sandwich

Builder: HOAD Bros, Sandwich 1862

Built for J. CRISPIN from Hull in1875 as LT 286. Lost on North Pier 1891 (Lowestoft)


ANNE

Ship description : brigante 115 tons Sailing vessel

Year built :

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : S. Padgham Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


ELIZA BLAXLAND

Ship description :

Year built : 1863

Builder : Hoad Bros. at Rye

Owners : became George Blaxland & Company

History : Mentioned in "Merchant Schooners" by Basil Greenhill Revised ed. 1968 page 48


SELINA

Ship description : 2 masted schooner, carvel-built, 134 tons.

Year built : 1863

Builder : Hoad Bros. at Rye

Built for John Misken and others of Faversham and registered at Deal. Transferred to Penzance 1867.


Deerhound

Ship description : 1 masted dandy-rigged smack, carvel-built, 35 tons.

Year built : 1864

Builder : Hoad Brothers at Rye

Built for Godden & West, Dover, Trinity Pilots. Broken up April 1903.

I have a copy of the receipt which reads as follows :

"Rye 19th August 1864

We Hoad Brothers Shipbuilders at Rye in the County of Sussex do hereeby certify that the Smack or Vessel 'Deerhound' of 34 68/100 tons or thereabouts having one deck and fitted with one mast Smack rigged was built by us at our yard at Rye on the 19th day of August 1864 on account of Messrs. John Ashtell Goddan ( ?) Thirty two sixty fourth shares (?) and George Barrow (?) West Thirty two sixty fourth shares both of Dover in the County of Kent, Trinity Pilots -

Hoad Brothers (signed) Shipbuilders"


MERMAID

Official Number : 52715

Ship description : Schooner; 76 tons

Year built : 1865

Builder : Hoad Bros. at Rye

Owners : Corporation of Trinity House Deptford Strond Kent

History : Mentioned in "View from the Sea" by Woodman & Smith


Sensation

Ship description : 2 masted brigantine, carvel-built, 189 tons.

Year built : 1865

Builer : Hoad Brothers. at Rye

Master or Officer : Stephen BRITT (or Brett) was master of the brigantine 'Sensation' of Rye in 1866 (Ship No. 47,891).

The list of owners included Lewis Hoad ( and Stephen Britt jnr.)


Wellington

Official Number : 56896

Ship description : Cutter rig 61 tons.

Year built :1865

Builders: Hoad Brothers, Rye

Signal Letters VQMF, Licence No 3

History : Dungeness cruising cutter (Dover). Relegated to tender duty in 1891 on the introduction of steamers and converted to ketch. Sold out of service in 1906 when tendering was undertaken by the Guide.


Edinburgh

Ship description : Cutter rig 62 tons.Off No. 60874, Licence No 4

Builders : Hoad Brothers, Rye

Year built : 1868

History : Run down and sunk by the ss Severn at Dungeness in March 1879. Loss of crew and nine pilots.

 Another cutter, Louise, may also have been built by Hoad Bros.


SURPRISE

Ship description : 1 masted smack, carvel-built, 44 � tons.

Year built :1869

Builder : Hoad Brothers at Rye

Built for Joseph Simmons, Dover, Mariner.

History : Lost on the River Nene, Cambridge, 12 August 1906.


Heroine

Ship description : 2 masted ketch, carvel-built, 56 tons.

Year built : 1869

Builder : Hoad Bros. at Rye

Built for James Collin Hoad. (J.C. Hoad Senior of 21 Watch Bell St. and the Rock Channel Shipyard declared bankrupt 2 February 1884 and the boat sold to Dover).


Favorite

Ship description : 1 masted smack, carvel-built.

Year built : 1871

Builder : Hoad Bros.at Rye

Built for Nuttall & Drake, Dover, shipowners.


RAVEN

Ship description : brigantine of 213 tons

Year built : 1873

Builders Prince Edward Island

Built for HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Mentioned in "Merchant Schooners" by Basil Greenhill Revised ed. 1968 page 46

Felted and yellow metalled in 1880.

A spar diagram of this vessel was published in "Sailing Shop Rigs and Rigging" by Harold Underhill

Owned in late 19th century by J.G. Gann


Pearl

Ship description : length 22.2 meter 74 berth made of oak

Year built :1875

Builders: James Collins HOAD at Rye

History : Sunk off the Swedish westcoast in 1955 under the replacement name of Gerda. Providing diving opportunities for at least one intrepid diver in 2003.


James Collins Hoad

Official Number : (H.1022)

Ship description : Smack fishing

Year built : 1876 built Rye

Builder : James Collins HOAD Rye

Owner : John Sims of Hull, sole owner.

History : Bought by William Brinham on 3rd Oct 1876. Vessel went missing on 6th Feb 1894.

Master or Officer :

Information Source :1984 the Hull Town docks museum passed on by Ray Green descendant of William Brinham (His G,G,G, grandfather)


Walter and Henry

Ship description : 1 masted cutter, carvel-built, 36 tons.

Year built : 1878

Builder: James Hoad at Rye

Built for Robert Henry Davison, Dover, Master Mariner.

History : Lost with all hands, North Sea, December 1883.


FREAK:

Ship description : British Sailing Smack 74 tons

Builder : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye. Sunk 24th May 1886, Location 100 yards west of Farlight;

cagro Granite Boulders;

Master or Officer : J. Martin. Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

History : Master G Robertson : Number of crew 2 . Lost in a force six south-westerly gale


CYRUS

Official Number : 6415

Ship description : British Sailing Schooner Cargo: 30 t of ballast

Date Built 1819, Great Yarmouth

Owner: James Collins Hoad, Robert Jones Hoad, Lewis Hoad

Date Sunk 15.3.1878 Location Rye Bay

Gross Tonnage: 68 Length ( f/m) 62/19 Beam (f/m) 17/5

Home Port: Rye Voyage: Hastings to Rye

Master: J Holland

Number of crew: 4

Ref: SIBI V2 section 3

History : The vessels Port of Rye registration number was 2. It had one deck and two masts. It sank with the loss of all the crew in a force six south-westerly gale with a cargo of 30 t of ballast. The part-owner James Collins Hoad's business address was 20 Watchbell St. Rye.


VICTORY

Date Sunk: 3rd August 1877

Location: Ashore at Fairlight coastguard Station Cargo: Stone

Home Port: Rye Owner: Mrs. Hoad, Rye

Master : J Morris

No of Crew: 3

ref: SIBI V2 section 3


ZEAL :

Ship description : British fishing smack

Year built: 1873

Owner: Hoad Brothers, Rye

Date Sunk 4.11.1877

Location: 6 miles (9.6kms) south east of Hastings

Home Port: Rye

Master: W. J. Foord

No. of crew: 4

ref: SIBI V2 section 3; HT 10.11.1877 HN 9:11.1877

History : In good visibility and with a light southerly breeze blowing, this local fishing smack was off Winchelsea at 3am on Sunday 4th November 1877 when she was run down by steamship SAMUEL HOWARD. This ship struck the fishing smack amidships, and the damage was so severe that the ZEAL sank within a couple of minutes. However, the crew manages to get into their jolly boat before the vessel went down. The SAMUEL HOWARD stopped, picked up the stranded crew and brought them close to HASTINGS, where the crew got back into their jolly boat and rowed to shore.

The circumstances of this incident were reported to Mr. Smith the chief officer at Hastings coastguard station. It appears that the ZEAL was not at fault as the vessel was showing a bright light at the time. Having given all the details to Mr. Smith, the crew returned to Rye on the train.


LOUIE

Official Number : 79930

Ship description : Ketch Wood

Year built : 1878

Builder : James Collins HOAD at Rye

Owners : regd Yarmouth 1881 (YH 846) T. Vaughan 81-87. E.E. Jex 1887-94; John Little Porstmouth 14th August 1894

History :


Conster

Official Number : 80246

Signal Letters RX99

Ship description : Smack 27.82 tons; Length 52 feet  and 4 tenths; Breadth 16 feet and 2 tenths. Depth 7 feet and 1 tenth; Registered  tonage 24 tons - 89.

Photo courtessy of Trevor Boreham

Builders: William James Hoad, Rye

Year built : port of registry Rye in 25th March 1878

History : Purchased as a trawler by the Boreham family. Lost in Rye Bay 8th November 1918, when she landed a mine caught in her fishing gear. There is a model of the ship in Rye Museum.

Owners : George (Bovis) Boreham (1840 - 1911) and then Boreham family of Rye

Photo courtessy of Trevor Boreham

Model on display in Rye Museum


Restless Wave

Ship description : wooden steam trawler

Year built : 1879

Builder : James Collins Hoad in Rock Channel yard

Built for : James Wales of Ramsgate

History : Foundered 19th October 1891 in the Firth of Forth. Mentioned in article in "Ryes Own Vol 8 No. 10 October 1973.


JESSIE

Official Number : 82279 - 65.4 x 19.1 x 9.0 feet at 51.5 tons

Registered LT207

Ship description : Wooden Ketch sailing trawler (Carvel)

Year built :1880

Builder : William J. HOAD at Rye

Owners :Mr S.Davies

History : Left Lowestoft 21 Jan 1884 for the fishing grounds. Reported missing 24 Jan 1884. Crewe of 5 under Skipper Mr A Bush (Henry Clarke was one member of the Crewe).

Postcard showing Smacks off Lowestoft towed by steamerPostcard showing Smacks off Lowestoft


Naomi & Lizzie

Official Number : 80250

Ship description : likely a fishing smack - dandy

Year built : 9th February 1881

Builder : Hoad Bros. at Rye

Built for : Robert Young of Rye

History : 1881 owned by Robert Young, William Reynolds and John Bush all of Rye,and the masters were Frederick Burt; early 1880s sold to Thomas Bush, John Bumstead and John Knowles. Jim Hill (source James Hill <[email protected]>) holds half-yearly accounts of the crew, 1888-1889 (RSS 1/688-689) and crew agreements, 1883-1890 (RSS 2/1/220-232); 1900's acquired by Sam Batchelor then sold on to W. E. Colebrooke.

Loss : 1912 Run down by the full rigged ship "Lawhill" 2,942 tons ship owned by Anglo American Oil Company, declared a total loss on 9th September 1912. Skipper and one Hand died in the accident, when the dandy rolled over and sank within minutes. Mentioned in article in "Ryes Own Vol 8 No. 10 October 1973.

Correspondent - James Hill's great grandfather a fisherman was killed in the accident and his body was washed up near Fairlight in 1912.


Emily

Official Number :

Ship description : Ketch smack 52 tons

Builders: James Collins HOAD, Rye

Year built : 1881

History : Ship may have been named after the daughter of George Gammon, who worked for J.C. Hoad. Emily married into the Clark shipbuilding family of Rye. There is a model of the Emily in the Rye Museum. Ship ended its life in 1906 fate unknown.

Owners Walter Stock of Lowestoft

Model of Emily on display in Rye museum


NELSON

Builder : HOAD

History : sank 29th November1886, Location 2 miles south of Winchelsea Coastguard Station, British Fishing Smack Master E Williams; Number of crew 3. Lost in a force six easterly gale


Oxfordshire

Ship description : smack

Year built : 1884 at Rye

Builders: James Collins HOAD at Rye

History : The "Oxfordshire" which is now the smack "Johanna" was sold to "The Smack TG 326 Johanna Foundation" for 1 Krona, about 1982 and she has been lovingly restored


SUNBEAM

Official Number : 63989

Ship description : Sailing Smack

Year built : 1884

Builder : William HOAD at Rye

Owners : LT owners (LT439)

History : Winner of the 1884 Lowestoft Smack race by less than 2 minutes, having been led most of the race by GEM OF THE OCEAN. Also winner of the 1884 Yarmouth Smack Race. January 1886 lost the 4th Hand, Charles Bowles overboard. 27th December 1893 went onto bank alongside north extension of Yarmouth harbour. Painted by George Vemply Burwood, pier head painter, signed copy in Lowestoft & East Suffolk Maritime Museum. 1905 sold to Belgium & renamed Charles-Yvonne. 1907 sold to Sweden & renamed SUNBEAM (Swedish no 5206). 1920 sold to Norway (S/F Skarholm F)


William Martin

Ship description : Ketch; Scalloway ketch

Builders: James Collins HOAD, Rye and Sandwich

Year built :

History : Shetland's last cod smack, sold in 1908, to the Faroes.

Owners : Shetland fishermen sold to Faroes


 

Rye tourism web site

http://www.rye-tourism.co.uk


 

WILLIAM & JANE

Ship description : Ketch 48 tons

Year built : 1811

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : H. Gander. Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


ROBERT

Ship description : Schooner 102 tons

Year built : 1820

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : G. Standen. Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


DELIGHT

Ship description : Brigante 92 tons

Year built : 1829

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : J. Souden. Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


PLACE

Official Number. 20948 First registered 'Fowey' No.50 of 1836 16th September, 54 tons

Ship description : Thomas Stribley Tide surveyor certified that the vessel has : 1 deck, 1 mast, length 37ft13/10ths, beam 13ft14/10ths, depth of hold 7ft14/10ths. Sloop rigged, running bowsprit, square sterned, no galleries, no figure head.

Year built : 1836

From PRO BT107/233:

Builder : George Nickels. Fowey

By : 1872 Belongs to Owners Hoad Bros. Rye, Sussex

Now described as a dandy, 39 tons.

[1872 MNL]

By : 1877

Owner Robert Jones Hoad, Rye

 [MNL 1879]


FLORA

Ship description : Schooner 63 tons

Year built : 1837

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : J. Pulford. Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


FORTITUDE

Official Number : 11788

Ship description :

Year built : 1845

Builder : J.HOAD Sandwich


BRITISH QUEEN

Official Number : 47894

Ship description : ship was 66.80 ton, 64'44" x 18'5" x 8'6".

Year built : 1845

Builder : HOAD Sandwich

Foundered off River Humber on 9th December1874


SKY ROCKET

Ship description : Fruit schooner

Year Built : 1850

History : Mentioned in "Merchant Schooners" by Basil Greenhill Revised ed. 1968 page 45


MARY ANN

Ship description : Schooner 157 tons, 88 ft. in length, 22.2 ft bredth, 12.2 ft. depth

Official Number :

Year built : 1850

Builder : Hoad Bros Rye, Sussex

Owned : Blaxland and Faversham

History : off the register by 1916


Greenwich

Official Number : 12719.

Ship description : brigantine, 214 ton

Builders: Hoad Brothers, Rye

Year built : 1850

Owners : William White Foreman owned her jointly with George Albert Cox (7th August 1901).

History : She was originally bought from London on 13th March 1867. She was insured by George Cox on 14th October 1875 for A3 400. She had an odd habit of suddenly leaking badly, requiring much effort to bale her out, then she would go a long time with no leaks at all. In a gale on 29th November 1897 she stranded on the Gunfleet Sand and was given up for lost. After a while her hulk was floated off and she was towed into Lowestoft. Repaired and refitted she continued in the coal trade until 17th March 1907. Then she was 22 miles N.E. of Flamborough Head bound from Newcastle to Exeter carrying coal, pig iron, and lead, when she foundered in a W.S.W. gale force 9. The crew of seven were saved.


RECKLESS

Ship description : Fruit schooner 149 ton

Year built : 1857

Builder : Hoad Bros. Rye

Owners : owned by George Albert Cox, William White Foreman and William H. Randall (8th January 1859).

History : 1. She was wrecked off Cleethorpes in 1880. 2. Mentioned in "Merchant Schooners" by Basil Greenhill Revised ed. 1968 page 45


CAUTIOUS

Official Number : 17323,

Ship description : Fruit schooner 138 ton

Builders: Hoad Brothers, Rye

Year built : 1854

Owners : William White Foreman, Walter Kitchingham Foreman, and John Goldfinch (13th July 1859).

Masters : are shown as Cooper, C. Merritt, and Parker.

History : Mentioned in "Merchant Schooners" by Basil Greenhill Revised ed. 1968 page 45

She was bought from Rye on 12th July 1859 and insured for A3 450. Mainly used in the coal trade, on the 12th July 1893 she was in Ramsgate Harbour when her cargo was found to be on fire. The crew fought the fire "with great heroism", one of them losing his life. Great damage was suffered, but the hulk was saved, towed to Whitstable, drawn up on the slipway, and practically rebuilt. She went back to the coal trade for another ten years. On 1st August 1903, when she was six miles E. of N. near Sandhead, Kent, with coal from Sunderland for Ramsgate, she sprang a leak. With careful sailing she made port, where she was unloaded, and then condemned. In April 1904, however, she was converted into a hulk. 20


LAMPLIGHTER

Ship description : Fruit schooner

History : Mentioned in "Merchant Schooners" by Basil Greenhill Revised ed. 1968 page 45


SURPRISE

Ship description : schooner 139 tons

Year built : 1852

Builder : Hoad Bros, Sandwich

Built for Wm SMEE Coal & Timber merchant of Maldon 1860's. (HOAD BROS of Sandwich 1858 138/178 tons, possibly n ? different vessels


Erin

In 1853 Stephen BRITT (or Brett) went to Newcastle upon Tyne where he negotiated the purchase of the tug 'Erin' for William Hoad and John Holmes on behalf of the Commissioners of Rye Harbour and later sailed her back to Rye as master.Bought for £755 (insured for £800)


Elizabeth.

Ship description : Brig, 148 Reg tons. 84.0 x 19.7 x 12.6.

Year built : 1853

Builder : Hoad Bros of Rye.

Owners Joshu Downs, Wm Charosin and John Jutson. This vessel was bought when new. W Charosin as Master.

History : Wrecked at Mogadon on 7 January 1856.


Chrysalis

Ship description : over 326 tons

Year built : 1853

Builder : HOAD

Built for the Australia trade.


HARRIET

Ship description : Schooner 89 tons

Year built : 1854

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : W. Howell Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


Gipsey Queen

Official Number : 7576

Ship description : Smack. Running bowsprit. Sailing ship. 32.11 tons: Number of Decks : One; Number of Masts : One; Rigging Stern : Square; Build ; Carvel; Gallery : None; Head : None; Framework : Wood; Length from the Forepart of the Stem : under the Bowsprit to the Aft Side of the Head of the Sternpost 53 feet; Main Breadth to the Outside of Plank :15 feet 9 tenths; Depth in Hold from Tonnage Deck to Ceiling at Midships 8 feet 15 tenths

Year built : 1854

Builder : Hoad Brothers Sandwich, in the County of Kent.

Owner : William Jamieson Adie, of Lerwick, in the County of Orkney and Shetland, Smack Owner - 64 shares.

History : Port of Registry : Lerwick

Master or Officer : Added at edge of document, and seems underlined. [James Blance - entered in pencil, presumably Master]

Dated :13th March 1867

Notes : Standing bowsprit altered to running bowsprit. No head the scroll head being removed. Length from the forepart of stem.

Remarks : Vessel stranded on Carr Reef near Crail 30th Augst. 1876 and became a total Wreck. Certificate of Registry delivered up & Cancelled. 30th Septr. 1876. Registry closed the same day.

Source of Information : Shetland Archives Customs and Excise Register of Shipping CE.85.11.2


SARAH

Ship description : a brig with a tonnage of 212grt, a length of 104ft 8in and a beam of 22ft 6in.

Year built : around 1854 at Southampton

History : Her original owners are not recorded but by 1869 she was registered as being owned by Robinson of Southampton.

In 1879 she was sold to HOAD Bros. of Rye

In 1883 she was purchased by Charles Pattinson of Newcastle with James Knott as manager.

She was broken in 1886.


Premier

Ship description : 2 masted snowl, carvel-built, 176 tons.

Year built : 1855

Builder : Hoad Bros. at Rye

Built for : Gravener & Bussey, Dover, shipowners.


Princess

Official Number : 26367,

Ship description : Cutter Rig, 52 tons

Builders Hoad Brothers, Sandwich

Year built : 1855

Signal Letters PKTR, Licence No 3

First pilot vessel built and owned by Trinity House. Run down by a barque off Dungeness in May 1862, completely dismasted and lost two men. Sold to the Hudsons Bay Company 1891? by which time she was rigged as a ketch.


In 1855 the Government emgaged in the Crimean War commissioned 3 ships in Rye one to HOAD ad the other two to the other Rye shipyards. The ship was a mortar ship costing £7,000 launched in 1856.


CONTENDER

Ship description : Schooner 100 tons

Year built : 1856

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : J. Crowhurst Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


LIVELY

Ship description : Schooner 92 tons

Year built : 1856

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : J. HARRISON Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


GLYNN

Ship description : 139 tons, 92 ft. in length, 21.3 ft bredth, 12.1 ft. depth

Official Number :

Year built : 1857

Builder : Hoad Bros Rye, Sussex

Owned : Hain of St. Ives


MISCHIEF

Ship description : Fruit schooner 63 tons

Year built : 1858

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye. Mentioned in "Merchant Schooners" by Basil Greenhill Revised ed. 1968 page 45

Master or Officer : I. Batchelor Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


Queen

Official No. 22166, Signal Letters NKHR Licence No 4

Ship description : Cutter Rig, 52 tons. Moulded Depth 09' 00"

Builders: Hoad Brothers, Rye

Year built : 1858

Near sister to Princess. Built at a cost of £1215 plus £472 3s 7d on fitting out. A total of £1687 3s 7d. In service in 1865 but not in 1870, most probably replaced by Wellington (II).


PERT

Official Number : 20156

Ship description : Smack ; Number of Decks : One; Number of Masts One; Rigging Smack; Stern Square; Build Carvel; Gallery None; Head None; Framework Wood; Length from the Forepart of the Stem under the Bowsprit to the Aft Side of the Head of the Sternpost 58 feet 4 tenths; Main Breadth to the Outside of Plank 17 feet 2 tenths; Depth in Hold from Tonnage Deck to Ceiling at Midships 8 feet 8 tenths; Tonnage Tonnage under Tonnage Deck 43.76

Year built : 23rd January 1858

Builder : Hoad Brothers Rye in the County of Sussex, and Sandwich in the County of Kent. (built Sandwich)

Owner : John Robertson, of Lerwick, in the County of Orkney and Shetland, Chairman of the Directors of the "Zetland North Sea Fishing Company." 64 shares. Dated 15h March 1858

History : Port of Registry Lerwick

Master or Officer :

Source of Information : Shetland Archives, Customs and Excise, Register of Shipping CE.85.11.2, Page 15

Port Number 2 in 1858

Notes : Vessel transferred from Rye 6th March 1858, No. 2/1858. Description of Vessel altered as per Survey at Cork, dated 24th Sep. 1880 in Number of Masts & rig. She has now two masts & is Ketch rigged.

Later Transactions :1 Letter Denoting Mortgages and Certificates of Mortgages. Name of Person from whom Title is derived John Robertson. Number of Shares affected 64 Date of Registry April 22d 1865, at 11.50 a.m. Nature and Date of Transaction Bill of Sale dated 22d April 1865. Name, Residence and Occupation of Transferee, Mortgagee, and other Person acquiring Title and Power John Robertson, Senior, Merchant, John Bannatyne, Baker, and Robert Goudie, Ironmonger; all of Lerwick, in the County of Orkney and Shetland, Joint Owners. Number and Account of subsequent Transaction, showing how Interest disposed of Transferred by No. 2 Number of Transaction under which Title acquired 1. Names of Owners John Robertson, Senior, John Bannatyne, Robert Goudie, Joint Owners. Number of Shares 64

Transaction 2. Letter Denoting Mortgages and Certificates of Mortgages. Name of Person from whom Title is derived John Robertson, Senior, John Bannatyne, and Robert Goudie, Joint Owners. Number of Shares affected 64. Date of Registry November 17th, 1873, 1 p.m.

Nature and Date of Transaction Robert Goudie dies on the 20th November 1869. Name, Residence and Occupation of Transferee, Mortgagee, and other Person acquiring Title and Power John Robertson, Senior, Merchant, and John Bannatyne, Baker, both of Lerwick, in the County of Orkney and Shetland, Joint Owners. Number and Account of subsequent Transaction, showing how Interest disposed of Transferred by No. 3. Number of Transaction under which Title acquired 2. Names of Owners John Robertson, Senior, John Bannatyne, Joint Owners. Number of Shares 64

Transaction 3. Letter Denoting Mortgages and Certificates of Mortgages  Name of Person from whom Title is derived John Robertson, Senior, and John Bannatyne, Joint Owners. Number of Shares affected 64. Date of Registry December 1st, 1873, 10 a.m.

Nature and Date of Transaction Bill of Sale, dated 17th Novr., 1873.. Name, Residence and Occupation of Transferee, Mortgagee, and other Person acquiring Title and Power Patrick Callaghan, of Cork, in the County of Cork, Ship Agent.. Number and Account of subsequent Transaction, showing how Interest disposed of. Number of Transaction under which Title acquired 3. Names of Owners Patrick Callaghan. Number of Shares 64

Transaction 4. Letter Denoting Mortgages and Certificates of Mortgages   Name of Person from whom Title is derived Patrick Callaghan. Number of Shares affected 32 Date of Registry December 8th, 1873, 10 a.m.

Nature and Date of Transaction Bill of Sale, dated 27th Novr., 1873. Name, Residence and Occupation of Transferee, Mortgagee, and other Person acquiring Title and Power Richard Walsh, of the City of Cork, Timber Merchant. Number and Account of subsequent Transaction, showing how Interest disposed of Transferred No. 5. Number of Transaction under which Title acquired 3 [Patrick Callaghan] 4 [Richard Walsh] Names of Owners Patrick Callaghan, Richard Walsh. Number of Shares 32 [Patrick Callaghan] 32 [Richard Walsh]

Transaction 5. Letter Denoting Mortgages and Certificates of Mortgages  Name of Person from whom Title is derived Richard Walsh. Number of Shares affected 32 Date of Registry 10th May, 1875, 10 a.m.

Nature and Date of Transaction Bill of Sale, dated 29th April., 1875. Name, Residence and Occupation of Transferee, Mortgagee, and other Person acquiring Title and Power Patrick Callaghan, of the City of Cork, Ship Broker. Number and Account of subsequent Transaction, showing how Interest disposed of  Number of Transaction under which Title acquired 3 Names of Owners Patrick Callaghan Number of Shares 64

Transaction 6. Letter Denoting Mortgages and Certificates of Mortgages. Name of Person from whom Title is derived Patrick Callaghan. Number of Shares affected 64. Date of Registry 23 June, 1890 at 10 a.m.

Nature and Date of Transaction Bill of Sale, dated 19 May 1890. Name, Residence and Occupation of Transferee, Mortgagee, and other Person acquiring Title and Power Edward Harris, of Youghal in the County of Cork, Master Mariner. Number and Account of subsequent Transaction, showing how Interest disposed of  Number of Transaction under which Title acquired 6 Names of Owners Edward Harris. Number of Shares 64

Remarks Edward Harris of Cork Hill, Youghal, County Cork, designated Manager. Advice under the hand of Patrick Callaghan, received 20 June 1890.


WILLIAM

Official Number : 25,525.

Ship description : Sailing Ketch 'William', 86.5 tons

Builders: Hoad Brothers, Rye

Year built : port of registry Rye in 1859

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Owners William Hoad and Stephen Britt Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye


BONNY CRAFT

Ship description : 46 tons

Year built : 1860

Builder : Hoad Bros Rye, Sussex

Owned 1884-89 by HARROWING STEAMSHIP CO., WHITBY, YORKS. 46

Notes : Broken up 1889


UTOPIA

Ship description : 184 tons, 105 ft. in length, 23.5 ft bredth, 12.6 ft. depth

Official Number : 28769

Year built : 1860

Builder : Hoad Bros Rye, Sussex

Owned


Impetuous

Official Number : 19009

Ship description : built as a snow, she was converted to a brig in 1860, then a brigantine in 1864. She weighed 163 tons.

Builders: Hoad Brothers, Rye

Year built :

History :

Owners : William White Foreman and Thomas Wood Minter, and was registered at Whitstable. She was insured for A3 920. She was sold to Guernsey.


EMILY

Ship description : Schooner 78 tons

Year built : 1861

Builder :

Owner : HOAD Bros. Rye

History : Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

Master or Officer : J. Tauton Listed in Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865 Rye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoad Boatyard at Rye, taken from a drawing by Sidney Shepherd. This lovely picture was emailed to me by Alan Holden, whose wife Monica, is a direct desendant of the HOAD family and is by this virtue my 5th cousin.

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