BENTON CASTLE M122 / LO151

Official No:  107041     Port Number and Year:    7th in Milford, 1896                                                                                63rd in London, 1897 (LO151)                                                                                 14th in Swansea, 1906 (SA21 )

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

Crew: 9 men

Registered at Milford: 20 Aug 1896

Built: Edwards Bros., North Shields, in 1896.  (Yard no. 519)

Tonnage: 162 grt  57 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 105.0 / 20.9 / 11.0

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 49 hp..  Engine: North East Marine Engineering, Sunderland

Owners:   As M122 20 Aug 1896: G.H.D. Birt, G.R. Birt, G. Tunley, J. Lloyd; Docks, Milford May 1897: As LO151   As SA21 1906: Castle Trawlers, Swansea.   Renamed WILHELMINA 13 Jun 1913: Dutch owners.

Landed at Milford:  10 Aug 1896 - 19 Jul 1904

Skippers: John Chamberlain, cert. 0988, age 42, born Happisburgh; 10 Sep 1896; 25 Jan 1897. Stroud, Fowler, Payne, Dove, Fletcher: 1897. A. Barrett, 5307, 23, Hull, 2 Jan 1898 J.R. Weyman 3574, - , Wakefield; 31 Jan 1898; 1900; 1901; 1902. Milford, (1901-03), Blake (1903-04)

Notes:

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 10 May 1897. Registration transferred to the port of London.

Accidents and Incidents

 

From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 19th September 1900:

 

    The steam trawler "Benton Castle" landed its mate at Milford on Saturday, suffering from a compound fracture of the thumb, sustained in getting the anchor on the rail.

 

 

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