CAMROSE M158
Official No: 112456 Port Number and Year: 8th in Milford, 1900
Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail, mizzen.
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 28 Nov 1900
Built: 1900 by Harkess & Son, Middlesbrough. (Yard no. 152)
Tonnage: 191.03 grt 37.07 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet):110 / 21 / 11
Engine:
Owners:
28 Nov 1900: William Harkess, Middle on Tees, Sunderland
Hugo MacColl, Middle on Tees, Sunderland
G. Reid Pollock, Middle on Tees, Sunderland
Manager: W. Page, Docks, Milford
22 Mar 1909: Norwegian owners.
Landed at Milford: 16 Dec 1900 - 28 Sep 1904
Skippers (While fishing out of Milford):
J. M. Pickering Cert. 4505; age 31, born Scarborough, residing 17 Priory Rd., Milford. Signed on 1 Dec 1900; 21 Jan, 5 Jul 1901; 9 Jan, 7 Jul, 17 Aug 1902; 1 Jan, 3 Jul 1903; 1 Jan 1904
H. Hills 2324, 31, Ramsgate, 66 Port Tennant, St, Thomas, Swansea; 1 Aug 1902; 8 Jul 1904; 12 Jan, 6 Jul 1905
Charles W. Treen 531, 42, Peterborough, 54 Prince of Wales Rd., Swansea; 4 Jan 1906
Notes: Insured by W. Harkness, Middlesborough in 1906 for £4,500
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 22 Mar 1909. Vessel sold to Norwegian owners.
Accidents and Incidents
Log book entries:
02.02.1902
12 miles S by E from the Hook.
Broken gallows and bent rail in endeavouring to tow the steam trawler 'Manorbier Castle'.
James Gillard (Skipper)
16.04.1903
About 74 miles from St Ann's Head.
Struck in port quarter, top rail, by the steam trawler marked VL 194. The steam trawler was going astern.
C. Reed (Skipper)
[VL = Vlaardingen (Netherlands)]
05.01.1904
35 miles S by E from the Saints, Bay of Biscay.
J. Llewellyn, age 53, cook; born Milford. Rupture of bowels lifting stock pot from galley range.
T.M. Pickering (Skipper)
[ See local newspaper report below. ]
13.01.1904
50 miles S by E of the Saints Lighthouse, Bay of Biscay.
Wheelhouse damaged, winch pipes bent and guard plate carried away.
T.M. Pickering (Skipper)
21.01.1904
Engine room pumps damaged.
T.M. Pickering (Skipper)
29.03.1904
At 2 p.m. on the 29th March, when lying at anchor off Milford Haven Docks, the steam trawler 'General Roberts', when endeavouring to cross my bows, struck the port bow of my vessel, denting the rail and bulwarks down to the covering board.
T.M. Pickering (Skipper)
07.08.1904
English Channel
Feed pumps damaged, valve seatings worked loose.
H. Hills (Skipper)
04.09.1904
Sunday morning, 6.30 a.m., the Skellig Rock bearing NE, distance 8 miles.
The steam trawler 'Weasel' collided with the the 'Camrose' damaging plates on the port quarter.
H. Hills (Skipper)
T. Hargrave (Second Hand)
22.01.1906
16 miles NE from the Longships.
Broken mizzen mast, rigging and sail. Brig ran into us, name unknown.
Charles W. Treen (Skipper)
23.01.1906
Mumbles anchorage
Bent stern plates. Steamer 'Fischer' of Rostock ran across our bows whilst we was riding at anchor.
Charles W. Treen (Skipper)
30.12.1908
Entry of death.
On 30th December at 5 o'clock p.m., we being laid at the pier at Loch Uig repairing our boiler, the trimmer, William Molyneux, while getting on board owing to the breaking of a rope, slipped and fell into the water, and being unable to swim was drowned before assistance could be rendered.
W. Dawe (Skipper)
E. Kidd (Second Hand)
04.01.1909
Fleetwood
The deceased, William Molyneux, had no wages due to him, as he had allotted all to his mother and she was paid up to date on the 31st December, before the fact of his death became known. The under-noted effects have this day been delivered to the Supt. at Fleetwood.
One cotton pillow
One rug
One Guernsey
One blue flannel singlet
One pair dungarees, parts all contained in one black canvas bag
W. Dawe (Skipper)
E. Kidd (Second)
W. Jackson (Deckhand)
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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 13th January 1904:
On Saturday evening, the steam trawler "Camrose" (Messrs. W. Page and Co.,) arrived in the harbour, when she reported one of the crew seriously ill. The unfortunate man was the cook, named Llewellyn, who, it transpired, ruptured himself very badly in carrying out his duties whilst the vessel was fishing in the Bay of Biscay. Captain Pickering and his crew did all they could in order to relieve the suffering man of his pains, and speedily as possible returned to Milford, where on arrival he was at once brought ashore, and Dr. Low was soon in attendance. Ultimately the sufferer was removed in the ambulance car to his home at Prendergast, Haverfordwest.
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