CORNWALL M191

Official No:  112463   Port Number and Year: 5th in Milford, 1903

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

Crew:  9 men

Registered at Milford: 14 Dec 1903

Built: 1903; by Smith's Docks, North Shields.  (Yard no. 732)

Tonnage: 180.98 grt  44.83 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):110.3 / 21.5 / 11.25

Engine: -

Owners:

 

14 Dec 1903: Sidney Morgan Price, Murray Cres., Milford

Cornelius Morley, 'St. Annes', Cunjic, Hakin

Frederick Robert Greenish, 'The Grove', Haverfordwest. (Doctor of Music)

Edward Parrish, Stoke Bishop, Gloucester.  (Solicitor)

Manager: S. M. Price

 

Landed at Milford:  30 Dec 1903 - 21 May 1906

Skippers: John William Setterfield cert 3670, age 31, born Ramsgate; signed on 18 Dec 1903; 1 Jan 1904

Henry James 5909, 39, Brixham; 29 Mar, 2 Jun 1904

J. L. Stroud 02471, 46, Ramsgate; 17 Jan, 8 Aug 1905; 9 Jan 1906

G. Gibbs 1784, 27, Gorleston; 2 Dec 1905

J. Clarke 3689, - , - ; 1906

Notes: 3 Jun 1906: Became a total loss after grounding near Oporto.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 3 Jun 1906.

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entries:

 

07.08.1904

Sighted the steam trawler 'Reginald' 1 mile from Wolf's Rock with crowns of boilers down.  He asked for assistance.  We passed warps on board and towed him to Plymouth, arriving there 8.30 same date.

    Henry James (Skipper)

[See log book entries for CORNET - ex REGINALD - for further mechanical problems in 1911.]

 

25.09.1905

About quarter to 7, while shooting the gear the steam trawler 'Dorothy' also shooting, ran into us, done damage to starboard bulwarks and stem.

    J.L. Stroud (Skipper)

[cf. Corresponding DOROTHY log book entry]

 

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From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, of Wednesday 6th June 1906:

S.S. CORNWALL LOST. -  News was received by Messrs. Sellick, Morley & Price on Monday morning that the steam trawler “Cornwall” had become a total wreck by getting on the bar at the entrance of Oporto harbour, Portugal.  The Cornwall was practically a new vessel and has in common with other Milford vessels been fishing on the Portuguese grounds.  At the time of the disaster she was entering Oporto presumably to land her catch.  The captain, J. Clarke (a successful skipper who had been many years in the firm) and crew were reported as all saved.

 

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 From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, of Wednesday 13th June 1906:

 

 Captain Clarke and the crew of the ill-fated “Cornwall” arrived home on Saturday evening.  They … had an exciting experience, the vessel struck on the rocks 20 miles from Oporto, and soon after they got onto the boat she turned over.

 

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