BARDOLPH H181 / M276

Official No:  132856     Port Number and Year:  -   in Cardiff, 1911 (CF37)                                                                                 -   in Hull, 1918 (?) (H181)                                                                                8th in Milford 1938

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

Crew: 12 men

Registered at Milford: 24 May 1938

Built: Smith Dock Co., South Bank on Tees, in 1911.  (Yard no. 482)

Tonnage: 257 grt  99.0 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.0 / 23 / 12.3

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 80 hp.10 kts.  Engine: 1911, by Shields Engineering, N. Shields.  Boiler: 1911, Richardson, Westgarth, Middlesborough.

Owners:   As NODZU CF37 Oct 1911: Neale & West, Cardiff   Renamed BARDOLPH H181 1918?:  Unknown Hull owners?   1920s: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford   As M276 24 May 1938: Milford Fisheries, Docks. Milford.  (64/64) Manager Owen Willie Limbrick   Renamed CLARINET Dec 1939: Ministry of War Transport

Landed at Milford:  6 May 1920 - 28 Dec 1921; 26 Jan 1923 - 10 Nov 1930; 5 Jan 1932 - 28 Jun 1932; 13 Nov 1934 - 30 Nov 1939

Skippers:

Notes: Mar 1915: Requisitioned  as NODZU (Admy. no.1356). 29 Mar 1915 - 10 Dec 1918: Based at Milford. 14 Nov 1915: With five other RN trawlers, salved SS FORMOSA. 3 Sep 1916: Salved schooner KATE. 7 Oct 1916: Salved Norwegian barque ASVALD. 1 Jan 1919: While rendering salvage assistance to US LAKE WINSTON, NODZU grounded off Cwm Nash (near Nash Point) on the coast of Glamorgan.  Trawler FAVORITA (Admy.no. 1655, GY1039) stood by.  Crew taken off and landed at Milford on 17 Jan.  The Admiralty initially believed NODZU to be a total wreck, but she was later salved and rebuilt at Appledore. Dec 1939: Requisitioned and converted to a Boom Defence Vessel, renamed CLARINET.  23 Nov 1943: Purchased into RN.  1946: Returned to previous owners as BARDOLPH. 1947: Acquired by Ministry of Transport,

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 28 Dec 1943.

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 7th February 1947:

 

    There is a likelihood that at least two of the four trawlers used as boom defence ships during the war, and recently returned to the port, may never fish again.  Asked on Thursday about the conversion of two of the vessels, the Caliban and Bardolph (Milford Fisheries), Mr. O. W. Limbrick declared, "We have no intention of paying the prices demanded by one section of the port.  The figures they want make the cost of reconversion prohibitive."

    The two other boom defence boats awaiting reconversion are the Milford Duke (Milford Steam Trawlers) and the Kuroki (Messrs. E. E. Carter).

 

 

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