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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