AURICULA M89
Official No: 98377 Port Number and Year: 3rd in Milford, 1892
Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Smack rigged: mainsail and mizzen
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 23 Feb 1892
Built: 1892, by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields. (Yard no. 137)
Tonnage: 152.59 grt 38.22 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet):100.5 / 20.5 / 10.75
Engine: T 3-cyl. 50 hp. Engine and boiler by builders
Owners:
23. Mar 1892: Cornelius Cecil Morley, Milford, Portlaw, Co.Wexford
William Geoffrey Davies Goff, Glenville, Co. Wexford
Manager: Frederick J. Sellick
9 Mar 1903: Southern Steam Trawlers Co., 27 Quay, Waterford, Ireland
Renamed BATAVIA II
22 Nov 1911: Dutch owners.
Landed at Milford: 20 Feb 1892 - 28 Jul 1904
Skippers: Alfred Barrett, cert 05043, age 40, born London, residing Priory Rd., Milford; signed on 10 Feb1892
John Reader, 0868, 40, Scarborough, - ; 14 Apr 1892; 4 Jul, 13 Dec 1893.
Henry Belton 3706, 32, Lincolshire, - ; 7 Jul 1892; 1 Jan 1893
James Smart 2005, 37, Hull. - ; 2 Jan, 5 Oct , 5 Nov 1894
A. Smith 0922, - , - , - ; 17 Jun 1894
Christopher Royal 05616, 41, Hull, 2 Jul 1894
Thomas Leyland 05547, - , Hull, - ; 30 Sep 1894
Fred Hardisty 1891, 30, Barton, - ; 7 Jan 1898; 6 Jan 1899
J. Gillard 2652, 33, Brixham, - ; 5 May, 5 Jul 1899; 8 Jan 1900
J. Curtis 5274, 24, - , - ; , 16 Feb, 3 Jul 1900; 1 Jan, 6 Jul 1901; 13 Jan, 6 Jul 1902
J. Riby 4079. 30 Scarborough, - ; 7 Jan, 11 Jul 1903
C. Means 1542, 44, Norfolk, - ; 15 Sep 1903
H. Hills 3190, 32, Ramsgate, - ; 8 Jan 1904
Christopher Masterson 5740, 30 Hull, - ; 16 Jan 1904
T. Rowlands 4144, 38, Plymouth, - ; 18 Apr 1904
Vessel sold to foreign owners:
James S. Gray 996, 50, Woodbridge, - ; 13 Nov 1904
Notes: Laid up from 1 Jun 1904 to 30 Jun 1904.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 22 Nov 1911. Vessel sold to Dutch owners.
Accidents and Incidents
Log book entries:
28.10.92
15 miles WSW of the Smalls - 1) burst steam pipe, 2) carried away two blades off the propeller. Struck what was supposed to be a stone.
H. Reynolds (Skipper)
25.11.1893
Vessel went aground November 25th 1893 in Swansea Harbour, through the delay of an engineer. We floated off on the next tide, all okay, no damage. When we reached Milford we put her on the Grid Iron. Still no damage found.
H. Reynolds (Skipper)
05.09.1894
WSW of St. Ann's Head we collided with the steam ship "Ensign". We damaged the starboard bow, stove in.
T. Leyland (Skipper)
25.03.1896
At 10.30 a.m., 25 miles WNW from the Smalls, William Ryan, age 19, from Neyland, fell under the guard rail in the engine room, and the crank shaft smashed his arm close to his wrist. We came back to port and the doctor amputated the hand. William Ryan was the trimmer.
J. Smart (Skipper)
02.07.1896
Off Bantry Bay, George Nichols, age 52 (deckhand from Plymouth), fractured his leg caused by being jammed by the wire warp against the winch.
C. Royal (Skipper)
26.10.1900
25 miles SW of Smalls
Cylinder broke. Too much strain on winch.
J. Curtis (Skipper)
13.03.1902
At sea, 11 miles W of Skerryrose.
A Coles, 23 years old, (Trimmer), born in Cardiff, residing in Milford.
B. Banner, 48 years old, (Chief Engineer), Milford Haven.
Both scalded, salt in furnace exploded.
J. Curtis (Skipper)
J. Hewett
25.03.1902
Wind WSW, rough, came fast on top of several rocks, 23 miles SW from St. Ann's Head.
J. Riby (Skipper)
W. Abbot (2nd Hand)
28.02.1903
5 p.m., and off Milford Docks entrance.
Quarter rail indented. Two bulwarks stanchions bent and two plates cracked, gunwhale indented and two chaffing bars cracked. Cause - run into by the steam trawler "Upton Castle", plus broken cement in waterway.
John George Riby (Skipper)
21.04.1904
When about 4 miles E of Padstow, fell in with the dismasted fishing smack 'Genuine' of Ramsgate, and towed her safely to Milford Haven. Distant about 60 miles. Time occupied - 1 p.m. on the 21.04.04 to midnight 21.04.04.
T. Rowlands (Skipper)
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