William Dobson, South Shields, Master Mariner

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I will go back to the record I found Seaweed and try to list here

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Looking at it again it could be Mary and Caroline

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Mary Caroline may be the one Seaweed, I can see her coming and going from Sunderland and Newcastle pre 1850 , but I only have newspapers to search

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apprenticed on the 16th March 1833 to March 16th 1836, on the Valenin, ? Newcastle
18th March 1836, seaman, on the M Reid, also Newcastle ,Foreign trade
4th April 1837, seaman  sailed on the Ship Friends,coasting,
2nd April 1838,seaman,sailed on the Triton,coasting,
.March 1839,seaman,sailed on the Vigilante, foreign,
all Newcastle

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sailed on the. Amazon, Dundee, as a 2nd  mate, foreign trade , April 1840

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OK Thanks for that Radcliff. It's beginning to come together.
I think the vessel he was apprentice on was VALLENIA built Sunderland 1814 233 tons regular sailings to the Baltic from Newcastle. Registered in Newcastle.
The other vessels do have Newcastle connections apart from M REID which I cannot find.
AMAZON of Dundee built New Brunswick 1833 292 tons Barque rigged.
What needs to happen is to search the British National Archive for copies of the various crew agreements which should/will confirm your findings but like I said in a previous post its a long haul for Paul. I personally would be content with what we have up to now.
The question is -------------------- Where was William Dobson from 1840 to 1851?

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Back sailing out of Newcastle Seaweed
this I can not make out
Macreon ? as a mate foreign and coasting,March 1841 until March 1844
Richard, April 1844 to March 1845, foreign

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on the George Bell, London, April 1845 to May 1846, mate and master, foreign and coastal trade

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GEORGE BELL built in 1839 at Sunderland 225 tons Snow rigged registered in London owned by J Gibbon regular sailings Shields- London and Shields Baltic.