P.S. Seaweed
My search criteria for the newspaper reporting for a court case of a smuggler named Wm Wallace was only from 1878 to 1890 using search terms "John Coggin Wallace". As already mentioned newspaper shipping reports showed that the John Coggin had another master part way through 1881.
As mentioned the last report was the 1881 sailing and here's the first two in 1878. Maybe I should return to the website to see when he commenced captaining the vessel.
<<Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette Tyne and Wear, England
14 Feb 1878 LATEST SHIPPING NEWS
GRAVESEND. Yesterday.— John Coggin, Wallace;>>
<<Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette Tyne and Wear, England
15 Jul 1878 FOREIGN ARRIVALS AND SAILINGS.
Rotterdam. Jnly 11.—Cleared—John Coggin, Wallace, for Middlesbrough>>
<<Shields Daily Gazette Tyne and Wear, England, 7 Aug 1878
Shipping
Copenhagen. COLLIERS ARRIVED AT GRAVESEND. August 3 -John Coggin, Wallace >>
I found this on an anc--y hosted website, which could explain why the vessel was named "John Coggin" and it could be that Wm Wallace took command of the vessel when its previous master was drowned in 1877:-
**LOST WITH ALL HANDS IN THE BRIG "FANNY" NEAR SINOPE, BLACK SEA, DECEMBER 1861 John Coggin, Master Mariner, age 31
**George Pinkney, master mariner, age 56, drowned at Yarmouth from his brig John Coggin 29 November 1877
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stormrhb/lost.htmSTORM AND COMPANY OF Robin Hood's Bay.
SOME OF THE MISSING SEAMEN OF 'BAY'
derived from a Register of Missing Seamen 1783-1912 by Jacob Storm and William Conyers
The deep each generation calls
With dulcet tempting voice,
No elemental wave appals
The sea remains their choice.
-From a poem by Jacob Storm