PETERBOROUGH HL41

Official No:  108451    Port and Year:   Grimsby, 1897 (GY244)                                                                  Hartlepool, 1922 (HL41)

Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Yawl rigged. Wheelhouse aft.

Crew:

Built: 1897; by Mackie & Thomson, Govan.  (Yard no. 136)

Tonnage: 161 grt  63 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 104.2  / 20.5  / 10.7

Engine: T.3-cyl; 45 rhp;  by Muir & Houston, Glasgow

Owners:   As GY244 Feb 1897: Hagerup & Doughty, Grimsby Apr 1906 Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co., Grimsby   As HL41 Dec: 1922: J. Y. Storr & George Whamond, Hartlepool.   c.1927: Waterloo Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford Manager: John McLeod, Victoria Rd., Milford.

Landed at Milford: 8 Dec 1927 - 22 Apr 1934

Skippers:

Notes: Oct 1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper (Admy. no.631) 1 x 6pdr.AA 1919: Returned to owners. 1934: Broken up at Ward's Yard, Castle Pill.

Accidents and Incidents

From The Irish Times of 9th April 1934, p.7:

 

TRAWLER FOUNDERS OFF WEXFORD

 

CREW LANDED AT MILFORD HAVEN

 

    A Lloyd's Milford Haven  message states that the steam trawler Mansfield, of Aberdeen (owners, Ritchie and Davies, Milford Haven), sprang a leak and foundered twenty miles from Coningbeg Lightship on Saturday night.

    The crew were landed at Milford Haven yesterday by the trawler Peterborough, belonging to the Waterloo Steam Trawling Company.

    The Coningbeg rock is the southernmost of the Saltee Islands, Co. Wexford.

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