APLEY M226

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  127417   Port Number and Year: 7th in Milford, 1908

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

Crew:  9 men

Registered at Milford: 16 Oct 1908

Built: 1908 by Smith's Dock Co., N. Shields.  (Yard no.384)

Tonnage: 221.88 grt  84.85 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):120.5 / 21.9 / 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:

16 Oct 1908: Neyland Steam Trawling & Fishing Co., Neyland.  

Manager: Alexander Scott.

Chairman: Sir Charles Phillips, Picton Castle

 

Landed at Milford:  21 Oct - 3 Nov 1908; thereafter landed at Neyland

Skippers: William Henry Davies, cert 5716, age 31, born Caerphilly, residing 'Laburnum House', Hazelbank, Llanstadwell; signed on 7 Oct 1908; 12 Jul 1909; 8 Jan, 10 Sep 1910; 12 Jan 1911.

Henry Bertram Clarke, 6177, 31, London,; Shakespeare Ave., Milford:25 May 1911; 16 Feb 1912; 2 Feb 1913 (residing 14 Trafalgar Rd., Milford); 17 Jul 1913 (residing 31 Shakespeare Ave., Milford).

C. Few 8822, 34, London, - : 12 Nov 1912.

G. Foster 5561, 40, Scarborough, - : 28 Nov 1912, 10 Jan 1913.

Notes: 16 Nov 1908: The first trawler to land at the new fish market at Neyland.  The two trawlers, APLEY and HERO, landed between them 250 kits of fish, with the APLEY making £81 and the HERO £98.

Feb 1914: In company with the Milford trawlers ISAAK WALTON, NOGI and SOLVA (Hancock & Harries), rescued the Dutch steam tanker ROTTERDAM.

Aug 1914: Requisitioned and converted to a minesweeper (Admy. no. 143) 1 x 3 pdr.

6 Dec 1917: Mined by UC-71 (Oberleutnant zur See Ernst Steindorff), off Worthing.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 11 Nov 1918.

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entries:

 

03.12.1908

At sea.

Thomas Phillips, forty-seven years of age, second engineer, Welsh, born Neyland, residing at James Street, Neyland - Ship gave lurch throwing him against boiler and bruising rib.

    W.H. Davies (Skipper)

 

23.12.1908

At sea.

Fred Stimson, thirty-five years of age, first engineer, English, born South Shields, residing at High Street, Neyland - Shipped heavy sea down engine room and cutting knee open.

    W.H. Davies

 

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From an unknown local newspaper of Tuesday 20th December 1910:

 

    A salvage was recorded by the steam trawler "Apley" (Captain William Davies), the vessel belonging to the Neyland Steam Trawling Company.  They had the good luck to come across a large Russian barque last Monday, off the coast of Ireland, homeward bound from South America with a cargo of guano.  The crew of the Russian barque were suffering from beri-beri, and were thus unable to manage the barque.  Captain W. Davies succeeded in towing the vessel to Queenstown, Ireland.  It is expected that the salvage will amount to a considerable sum.

 

 

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