ABELARD M17
Official No: 128744 Port Number and Year: 1st in Milford,1909
Description: Side trawler, steel. Steam screw - coal burner. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail, mizzen
Crew: 9
Registered at Milford: 27 Jan 1909
Built: Smith Docks Co., North Shields 1909. (Yard no. 392)
Tonnage: 187 gross 69.8 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 110.8 / 21.5 / 11.8
Engine: T.3-cyl. 64 nhp. 10 kts. 1909. W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge, Glasgow.
Boiler 1909. R. Stephenson & Co. Ltd., Hebburn
Owners:
27 Jan 1901: Frederick Robert Greenish, The Grove, Haverfordwest.
Edward Gerrish, Stoke Bishop, Glos.
Manager - Sydney Morgan Price, Cunjic House, Hakin, Milford
Landed at Milford: 2 Feb 1909 - 1 Aug 1914
Skippers: J.T.L Clarke (Cert. 612) Age 52. Born Gt. Yarmouth. 20 Jan 1909 - 10 Jan 1910
Charles M Schock (8279) 30. Denmark. 28 Jun 1910 -7 Jul 1910
J.T.L Clarke (612) 54. Gt. Yarmouth 31 Aug 1910 - 13 Jan 1913
Charles M Schock (8279) 32. Denmark. 22 Apr 1913
J.T.L Clarke (612) 54. Gt. Yarmouth 2 May 1913
Charles M Schock (8279) 32. Denmark. 20 Jun 1913
Notes: Aug 1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper (Admy. no 151) 1 x 6pdr. (First local trawler to be called up for charter by the RN.)
24 Dec 1916: Wrecked off Plymouth breakwater.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 30 Jan 1919
Accidents and Incidents:
From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of 10th February 1909:
NEW TRAWLERS
Last week we saw two new steam trawlers arrive with their maiden cargoes of fish. Both have been built at the well-known yard of the Smith Docks Trust, South Shields, to the order of Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price: the "Abelard" is commanded by Captain J. T. Clarke, and the "Macaw" by Captain Matt Kingston, both successful skippers. The vessels are of the class of the "Weymouth" and others, and not of the the larger size trawlers, but thoroughly up-to-date as regards equipment.
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Logbook entry, 16.03.11.
Sixty-five miles NW by W from the Bull Rock. Damaged small boat, engine room skylights, galley skylight, cabin, galley funnel and starboard 1ight screen.
J. T. L. Clarke. (Skipper)
F. Cornish. (Second Hand).
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From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of 8th October 1913:
On Thursday afternoon, the steam trawler Abelard, Messrs Sellick, Morley & Price, put back into the Haven and reported a serious explosion which occurred at seven a.m. when the vessel, which was on her way to the fishing grounds off the Irish Coast, had only steamed ten miles from the Heads. Something went wrong with the acetylene gas apparatus, and an explosion took place in the fish room, where the mate, William Adams, was at that moment engaged in getting the fish room ready. He received the full force of the blast, the fish room was literally wrecked, and the skipper at once turned his vessel round and headed back to Milford with all possible speed. The mate, it was evident, was in a serious condition, and on arrival in the Haven the skipper went alongside the first of the warships, H.M.S. Terrible, and asked for the doctor, who promptly boarded the trawler and had the injured man brought aboard the cruiser, where everything possible was done for him.
Afterwards he was placed on a Naval Ambulance and brought ashore by blue jackets, accompanied by the naval doctor, who had him conveyed to Doctor Griffiths’ surgery, and subsequently to his house in Warwick Road. The poor fellow was badly burnt but the exact nature of his injuries could not be ascertained. Mr Adams was a native of Brixham, but has lived in Milford for many years, and has a wife and a large family. Mr Adams, whose condition remains serious, was on Saturday evening removed to the County Infirmary, Haverfordwest.
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