DOMINION M27

Milford Haven Port Authority

Official No:  114243    Port Number and Year: 10th in Brixham, 1903 (BM205)                                                                               6th in Milford, 1909

Description: Wooden sailing smack; beam trawling.  Ketch rigged

Crew: 4 hands

Registered: 24 Jul 1909

Built: 1903, by J.W, & A. Upham, Brixham

Tonnage: 52.53 grt

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 65.4 / 18.6 / 9.1

Engine: -

Owners:   [Date?]: Coasting (crew 9): William Francis, Castle Pill, Milford  32/64 George Paynter Francis, 'Brompton House', Melville St., Pembroke Dock 32/64   24 Jul 1909: Fishing John Phillips, 'Wernlwyd Villa', Wellington Rd., Hakin.  (64/64) (Died 31 Mar 1917)   Margaret Gwendoline Phillips (widow), 'Wernlwyd Villa', Wellington Rd., Hakin. Manager: Peter Hancock   1917: W.H.B.N. Corpil, Dieppe, France.

Landed at Milford: 25 Jan 1904 - 20 Nov 1917

Skippers: S. W. Richards cert. 1753, age 54, born Tenby, residing 24 Trafalgar Rd., Milford; signed on 26 Jul 1909; 27 May 1912 F. S. Weymouth 2477, 44, Brixham, 223 Jubilee Terr., Milford; 8 Feb 1910 E. H. Smith 1768, 45, Brixham, Kings St., Brixham; 23 Aug 1910 W. R. Summers 6694, 54, Brixham, 13 Gwili Rd., Hakin; 9 Feb 1912; 8 Jan, 27 Feb, 13 Aug 1913 J. Cornish 3604, 51, Brixham, - ; 14 Feb 1913

Notes: 17 - 23 Aug 1910:  Laid up in dock

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 31 Dec 1931.  Sold to French owners.

Accidents and Incidents:

Log book entry:

 

24.2.13

Quarter belter knocked out and rail started.  Cause - ran into by DEODAR of Brixham.

J. Cornish (Skipper)

 

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Note of Protest by the Master of the steam ship LARS FOSTENES, 1259 tons, dated March 13th 1917:

 

From New York to Rotterdam via Falmouth, with general cargo, 19th December 1916.

 

On December 1916 we lost three blades of our propellor and had to put into Louisbury, Cape Breton.  We were towed from Louisbury to Halifax yard, a new propeller put on, and we left Halifax on Friday January 6th 1917 for Louisbury.

 

Everything went all right until 10 am on March 9th, hwen we were in Lat 51N, Long. 7.5W, where we sighted a submarine, which at 12.15 pm fired a torpedo at my vessel, but same missed striking her, and then a few minutes later a second torpedo was fired, which struck the steamer amidships on her port side, causing a violent explosion, but the vessel did not appear to sink quickly enough to suit the submarine commander, so at 12.40 pm he opened fire on us with his gun, and at 2 pm the steamer listed to starboard and sank head first.

 

All the crew being then in the vessel's boats, we steered towards the land and were subsequently picked up by the sailing trawler "Dominion", which landed us at Milford Haven at 6 pm on March 10th 1917

 

Hans Kallevig

Haugesund, Norway

 

 

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