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Thomas 1865 Gotts - Master, Captain, & pilot in Hull

This record is in Ancestry for Thomas’s Master certificate:

“Thomas Gotts b 15 Feb 1814 Yarmouth. Present age 36 years & 8 months. Ref 39947 Employed as Master 12 years in British Merchant Service in the Foreign & Coasting trade. Issued at Gt Yarmouth 19 Dec 1850”

Claim for certificate of Service:

Vessel	Port belongs to	tons	Rank	Trade	Date of service
Henry	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	250	apprentice	Baltic	Still employed as master from Jan 1828 to Jan 1832
Ditto	Ditto	250	Seaman	American	Jan 1832 to Jan 1834
Spring	Yarmouth	190	Seaman	American	May 1834 to April 1835
Alexander	London	160	2nd Mate	Mediterranean	April 1835 to April 1837
Pursuit	Yarmouth	84	master	Foreign & coasting	Feb 1839 to May 1845
Thomas Baring	Yarmouth	105	master	do	May 1845 to Oct 1850

Witnessed by Benjamin Jay of Yarm

“Application to be examined as Master for Home trade, passenger ships 10 Sep 1857

Address 38 Wilham Street, Pattery, Hull. Application dated 7 Sep 1857, granted 9 Sep 1857. “

Extra testimonials:

Vessel	Port belongs to	Rank	Date of service	Length of service
Hannah	Gt Yarmouth	master	1851-1853	2 yrs
Oscar	London	mate	Dec 1854 to Aug 1855	7m 18d
City of Norwich	Lowestoft	mate	Aug 1855 to May 1856	9m 12d
Velocity (26513)	London	mate	May 1856 to Sep 1856	4m
North Sea (5595)	Hull	mate	Feb 1857 to Apr 1857	1m 24d
Irwell (5348)	Hull	mate	Jul 1857 to Aug 1857	21d

Total time at sea with new certificates: 13 years 11 months 25 days, total service at sea 19 years.”

This is Thomas 1865 s George & Hannah Sexton in tree 040.

The record stack up with Gt Yarmouth Ship Registers researched by Ian Gotts in Kings Lynn. It is possible that Thomas was baptised ‘Sexton’ as he was born before George and Hannah married in 1816.

We know Thomas was a North Sea pilot in Hull in 1871, and was captain of the “ Gibraltar” which sank in the North Sea. See the next page for details.

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