ESCORT  M9

Official No:  78324    Port Number and Year:  - in Milford, 1899

Description: Wooden sailing smack; beam trawling.  Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen

Crew: 3 men, 1 boy

Registered: 20 Mar 1899

Built: Brixham, 1878

Tonnage: 40.17 grt

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 63 / - / -

Engine: -

Owners:   c1892: Richard P. Mills, 6 Ranscombe, Brixham.   20 Mar 1899: Peter Leslie Hancock, Hakin

Landed at Milford: 24 Feb - 19 Apr 1899

Skippers: John Rind

Notes: Wrecked 22 Apr 1899. [See below.]

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 24 Apr 1899

 Accidents and Incidents

From the Liverpool Mercury of Monday 24th April 1899:

WRECKS AND CASUALTIES

Escort, sailing trawler (Milford Haven, April 22nd), of Milford, was run into and sunk by sailing trawler Fish Girl yesterday, 18 miles east of Lundy.

From The Scotsman of 22nd April 1899:

SHIPPING CASUALTIES

SMACKS IN COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE

 

    The smack Fish Girl, of Brixham, arrived at Milford Dock yesterday morning, and reported that at 3 a.am. she collided with the smack Escort, of Brixham [sic], eighteen miles east from Lundy Island.  A huge hole was cut in the Escort's side, and she sank almost immediately.  J. Parnell, mate, and Frederick Haycock, boy, were drowned, but the remainder of the crew, after a struggle, boarded the Fish Girl, and proceeded to Milford.

 

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