AYACANORA M2
Official No: 104111 Port Number and Year: 2nd in Milford, 1894 - in Swansea, 1905 (SA72)
Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail, mizzen
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 24 Mar 1894
Built: 1894, by T.R. Oswald, Castle Steel Works, Castle Pill, Milford. (Yard no. 266)
Tonnage: 147.01 grt 56.1 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet):103.5 / 21.1 / 9.8
Engine: C 2-cyl. 48 hp. Engine: Ross & Duncan, Glasgow.
Owners:
24 Mar 1894: Thomas Ridley Oswald, CastleHall, Castle Pill, Milford
R.S. Brocklebank
Henry Newland
1905: Rhondda Fishing, Swansea.
1926: Spanish owners.
Renamed PUNTA BERMEJA
1949: Renamed CASTIPURITAS
Landed at Milford: 19 Mar 1894 - 27 Aug 1903
Skippers: John Chamberlain Cert. 0889, age 40, born Happisburgh, residing Robert St., Milford; signed on 24 Mar 1894.
Fred Hardisty 1891, 27, Barton on Humber, 58 Robert St., Milford; 25 May 1894; ?? 1896.
C. J. Wildridge 1847, 30, Hull, Manchester Sq., Milford; 3 Jul 1895; 1 Jul 1896; 1 Jan 1898.
J. Clark 612, 42, Grimsby, - ; 9 Jun 1898.
H. Glansford 1660, 30, Hull, - ; 7 Jul 1898
Thomas Leggett 4759, 26, Gorleston, - ; 12 Jul 1898
J. Kilby 1427, 36, Hull, - ; 23 Jul 1898
F. Dollin 841, 42, Lyme Regis, - ; 2 Dec 1898
John Johnson 2459, 34, Nottingham, 8 Jubilee Tce., Milford, 24 Jan, 29 Jul 1900; 7 Jan 1901
C. Fears 2279, 39, Hull, St.Ann's Rd., Hakin; 9 Jul 00
A. Abbey -, 36, Oundle, - ; 17 Jan 1901
Robert Webb 5757, 32, Scarborough, Hakin; 4 Feb, 17 Jul 1901
L. Fitzclark 2695, 35, Kent, - ; 1 Sep 1901
J. W. Peters 3915, 31, Hull, Greville Rd., Milford ; 20 Dec 1901; 15 Jan 1902
H. Rostron 5429, 30, Manchester, - ; 9 May 1902; 17 Dec 1903
E. Walker 3445. 38, Brighton, 29 Jun 1902
W. T. Smith 5908, 25, Bexhill,44 Lynton Tce., Port Tenant, Swansea; 11 Jun, 26 Jul 1903; 22 Mar 1904
Edwin Cox 4408, 34, Boston, - ; 21 Aug 1903
H. Ragworth 3687, 34, Leeds, - ; 5 Dec 1903
Henry Reynolds 05335, 48, London, Brookfield House Priory Rd., Milford; 26 Jan 1904
H. Ellis 1908, 34, Plymouth, - ; 9 Feb, 3 Dec 1904
Edgar Garnham 1571, 38, Sittingbourne, 12, Kensington Tce., Swansea; 9 May, 20 May 1904
S. Richards 6941, 24, Neath, - ; 27 Jul, 27 Oct 1904
W. Blackler 1890, 30, Berehaven, - ; 28 Dec 1904
Notes: 18 Jul - 21 Aug 1903: Laid up.
1914-18: Fishery trawler.
1 Sep 1978: Broken up in Spain.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 23 Oct 1905. Vessel transferred to the port of Swansea.
Accidents and Incidents
Log book entries:
20.11.1891
At 11.30 p.m. we saw a blue light, steamed to it and found it to be the steamer 'Chicago' disabled. Spoke to him at 12.30. He wanted towing to Queenstown. Took his wire hawser, started to tow at 3 a.m. 21st. Weather fine , light wind WSW. Took Pilot at Roches Point at 10.30 p.m. and had both ships safely anchored at 12 p.m.
F. Hardisty (Skipper)
18.02.1896
North Quay, Milford Dock.
Run into by the steam trawler 'Camellia' of the port of Milford, rendering [damage to ?] rail and bulwarks and stanchions. Engines of the 'Camellia' refusing to go astern when telegraph was rung.
J. Wildridge (Skipper)
11.03.1898
Milford Docks.
W.O. Pulford, age 20 (trimmer), lived in Saundersfoot. Burnt whilst engaged in cleaning furnace fire, through falling on to the clinkers in a fit, on stokehold plates.
07.08.1898
Bishops Rocks.
Stern twisted, striking the rocks, South Bishops, during dense fog.
J. Kilby (Skipper)
11.12.1898
On the 11th inst. we struck schooner 'Cicely' of Waterford doing her damage, her bowsprit and fiddle head being damaged, not hurt ourselves.
D. Dollin (Skipper)
05.04.1900
22 miles west by north of [?]
Steered the steam trawler 'Pembroke Castle' with broken rudder from 4 p.m. on the 5th to 1.30 p.m. on the 7th April 1900
J. Johnson (Skipper)
31.08.1901
140 miles W by S of St. Ann's Head.
J. Johnson, age 36, Skipper, born Nottingham, living at Milford. Leg jammed between warp & winch cylinder.
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