ANGLE M225

Official No:  127417    Port Number and Year: 6th in Milford, 1908

                                                                               -   in Fleetwood, 1919 (FD57)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged - foresail, mainsail and mizzen

Crew:  9 men

Registered at Milford: 1 Oct 1908

Built: 1908 by Smith's Dock Co., N. Shields. (Yard no. 383)

Tonnage: 221.89 grt  86.38 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):120.5 / 21.5 / 11.6

Engine: T 3-cyl. 68 hp. 10 kts.  Engine: 1908, by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge, Glasgow.  Boiler: 1908, by David Rowan & Co., Glasgow

Owners:

 

6 Oct 1908: Neyland Steam Trawling & Fishing Co., Neyland. (Enoch Davies, 'Belmont House' High St., Neyland.) 

Manager: Alexander Scott.

 

24 Feb 1919: Croston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Orient Buildings, Station Rd., Fleetwood Managers: Taylor & Tomlinson

 

Landed at Milford:  8 Oct - 6 Nov 1908; thereafter landed at Neyland

Skippers:

Robert Major Limbrick, Cert 7616  age 49, born London, residing 14 Upper Hill St., Hakin; signed on 1 Jul 1909; 2 Feb 1910; 1 May 1911; 10 Jul 1912.

Thomas Charles Jobson, 6950, 31, Newcastle, 54 Waterloo Rd., Hakin; 15 Jan 1910

Henry Bertram Clarke, 6177, 30, London, 13 Greville Rd., Milford; 24 Jan 1911

Wm. Henry Davies, 5716, 35, Caerphilly, 'Laburnam House', Hazelbeach, Neyland; 24 Sep 1912; 13 Jan 1913.

B. Richards, 4775, 39, Tenby, -; 9 Jul 1913

George Medway 6777. - - -

Notes: 

Apr 1915: Requisitioned and converted to a minesweeper (Admy. No. 1367) 1 x 12 pdr.

1919: Returned to owners.

7 Jan 1924: Sailed Fleetwood and streamed log, severe south-east gale and snow storm off Isle of Man. Distance travelled underestimated due to gale and ran on the Bahama Bank, Isle of Man. Investigation concluded that disaster might have been averted if Bahama Bank lightvessel had not been removed; eleven crew lost plus two pleasure trippers.

[Information supplied by "The Bosun's Watch" website.]

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 4 Mar 1919. Transferred to the port of Fleetwood

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entry:

13.06.1911

65 miles WNW of Fastnet.

T.Bryant, twenty one years of age, trimmer, British, born Neyland, residing in Neyland.  Fore finger of left hand injured - caused by falling from deck casing while in the act of turning ventilator.

    Henry Bertram Clarke (Skipper)

    W. Rogerson (Mate)

 

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From the Irish Times of Friday 23rd December 1910:

 

SEVERE WEATHER IN THE ATLANTIC

VESSEL DISMASTED

                                                                                                                                QUEENSTOWN, Thursday.

 

    The Milford steam trawler Angle towed into this port today the three-masted schooner Kathleen in a dismasted and wrecked condition.  The Kathleen was bound from Rio Grande to Liverpool and on the 24th ultimo, when in latitude 48 north, longitude 14 west, was struck by a violent gale. .......

    ........................

Approaching the Irish coast, distress signals were hoisted, and on the 20th inst., at 1 p.m., when 160 miles from Queenstown, the steam trawler Angle was sighted.  She bore down on the dismasted vessel, and passed two steel hawsers aboard her, in order to tow her to Queenstown.  The weather being bad, one of the hawsers snapped, and it was no easy task to get a new one passed to the Kathleen.  It was accomplished, however, at great risk to the crew who manned the boat, and eventually the disabled vessel was towed safely to this port.

 

 

 

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