DOROTHY M69

COLWYN M69

Official No:  112451    Port Number and Year: 10th in Milford, 1899

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

Crew:  9 men

Registered at Milford: 26 Oct 1899

Built: 1899 by W. Harkess & Son, Middlesborough (Yard no. 149)

Tonnage: 182.73 grt  62.29 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):110 / 21 / 10.58

Engine: T 3-cyl. 63 hp; by Furness, Westgarth & Co., Middlesborough

Owners:   26 Oct 1899: As DOROTHY David Pettit, 47 Priory Rd., Milford (32/64) William Page (32/64) Manager: David Pettit   12 Nov 1906: David Pettit, Docks, Milford (64/64) Manager / Owner   31 Mar 1909: Renamed COLWYN David Pettit, Docks, Milford (32/64) Joseph White Johnstone 'Point House', Neyland (32/64) Manager: David Pettit   4 May 1911: David Pettit, Docks, Milford (64/64) Manager / Owner   Renamed DAINI MARU 15 Sep 1911: Japanese owners.

Landed at Milford:  4 Nov 1899 - 2 May 1908 (as DOROTHY) 18 Apr 1909 - 11 Sep 1911 (as COLWYN)

Skippers: T. M. Pickering cert. 4505, age 30, born Scarborough, residing 20 Warwick Rd., Milford. Signed on 27 Oct 1899; 1 Jan, 10 Jul 1900; 15 Jan 1901 William Barden 4507, 25, Brixham, 12 Warwick Rd., Milford; 3 Jan 1901 G. Barnett 4244, 33, Hull, - ; 16 Mar 1901 J. Coaker 4190, 29, Brixham, Warwick Rd., Milford; 1 Jun, 6 Jul 1901 J. Kilby 1427, 39, Hull, Great North Rd., Milford; 17 Oct 1901; 1 Jan 1902 George Hanlon 6159, 28, Hull, Robert St., Milford; 21 Feb, 2 Jul 1902; 17 Jan, 9 Jul 1903; 21 Jan 1904 C. W. Mears 1542, 45, Norfolk, Warwick Rd., Milford; 12 Feb, 1 Jul 1904 B. H. Blockwell 2523, 40, Yarmouth, - ; 15 Jul 1904 R. Woodgate 4187, 38, Beer, Priory Rd., Milford; 25 Oct 1904; 4 Jan 1905 J. Clarke 3629, 41, Hull, - ; 9 May 1905 John H. Pettit 7106, 22, Hull, Charles St., Milford; 23 Jul 1905; 14 Jan 1908 (47 Dewsland St., Milford) John Beck 6604 30, Caistor, 13 Warwick Rd., Milford; 16 Jan 1906 Ernest F. Sanderson 5159, 32, Brighton, - ; 6 Jul 1906 R. M. Limbrick 7616, 47, London, - ; 12 Nov 1906 W. Griffiths 7810, 26, Milford, - ; 7 Mar 1908 John Blake 2145, 40, Brixham, 34 Dartmouth St., Milford; 7 Apr; 12 Jul 1909 William Kent 7835, 29, Lowestoft, 3 Gwili Rd., Hakin; 3 Jan 1911

Notes: Insured by David Pettit in 1906 for £5,000. Laid up from 4 May 1908 - 18 Apr 1909

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 15 Sep 1911. Vessel sold to Japanese owners, Gomei Kaisha, Shimonoseki; renamed DAINI MARU, later TAJIMA MARU

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entries:

 

23.05.1900

At 10 a.m. at sea the winch was broken.  Heavy seas was the reason.

    J. M. Pickering (Skipper)

 

06.11.1900

Engine room skylights, wheelhouse windows, galley and cabins damaged and flooded, damage on deck.  Vessel shipping heavy seas.

    J. M. Pickering (Skipper)

 

12.01.1901

E. W. Rhodes, deckhand, took off board fish to the value of £3.10.0 without permission.  Sold it and kept the proceeds.

    J. Kilby (Skipper)

 

11.12.1901

Londonderry, Ireland.  9.30 a.m. 

Whilst leaving the quay for sea at the above mentioned place and time, our port quarter caught one of the wooden piles and broke it, also lifted the steps adjoining.  I saw no further damage.  I drew the attention of a man to it, who said he was foreman in charge of repairs on the quay.  I asked him to report it.  Strong ebb tide and north wind blowing at the time.

    J. Kilby (Skipper)

 

05.11.1902

Milford Docks

Ran into "Victoria's" stern, damaging bulwark and stanchion.  Not sufficient room to swing vessel.

    George Hanlon (Skipper)

 

02.05.1903

50 miles SSE of the Blaskets.  At sea.

Broken winch.  Strong wind, heavy sea.

    George Hanlon (Skipper)

    George Medway (Mate)

 

10.07.1903

15 miles W of St Ann's Head.

Broke boat and rigging.  Shipped a heavy sea in a gale of wind.

    George Hanlon (Skipper)

 

19.08.1903

At sea, 26 miles ESE from the Smalls Lighthouse

C. Fears, age 40, Mate; born Hull, residing Milford.

Fell across bollard with the lurch of vessel and injured lower part of stomach.

    George Hanlon (Skipper)

 

11.07.1904

205 miles W by S 1 S from St Ann's Head.

Collided with the 'Princess May'.  My vessel's plates dented on the port side through neglect on the part of the watch on deck.

    Charles Mears (Skipper)

 

23.01.1905

Milford Haven

Collision with the 'Jeanne' schooner of Fowey.  Vessel driving from anchor owing to strong gale.

    B. Woodgate (Skipper)

    I. Etherington (Witness)

 

29.09.1905

At Bantry Bay, Ireland

Slight damage to the rail and bulwarks on the port side, caused by the steam trawler 'Cornwall' running into us.

    John H. Pettit (Skipper)

    I. Etherington (Witness)

[cf Corresponding entry in Cornwall's log book.]

 

18.01.1906

On the morning of January 18th, blowing a gale WSW while lying in Milford Haven, I saw the smack 'Lynx' of Brixham, across the bows of a schooner.  I went alongside as near as possible and the skipper of the smack asked me would I pull him clear as the schooner was hammering him to pieces, which I did.  I towed the smack up to his anchor, which he got aboard and then the tow rope broke and he set his jib and foresail, and ran up the Haven into safety.

    J. Beck (Skipper)

 

19.11.1906

Left Milford on the above date at 5.30 p.m.  Anchored at 6.15 p.m. same date, with large anchor and took 45 fathoms of cable in 6 fathoms of water, Angle Point bearing S by E.  At 8 p.m. the steam trawler 'Rosslyn Castle' of Milford collided with us.  Damage slight.

    R. M. Limbrick (Skipper)

    H.W. Limbrick (Mate)

 

21.03.1908

At sea, 4 miles N by W of Trevose Light.

W. Steward, age 21; born Neyland, residing Neyland.

Arm burnt by waste in forecastle catching fire.  Cause of fire unknown.

    William Griffiths (Skipper)

    Godfrey Mills (Mate)

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From the Irish Times of Tuesday 31st July 1906:

 

Ss Dorothy (steam trawler), of Milford, towed in ss Corporal, of Glasgow, with machinery broken down.

 

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COLWYN

Log book entries:

 

20.05.1909

On Thursday May 20th, at about 5 p.m., we left the fishing grounds to make for the Fastnet, thick weather at the time.  We ran our distance and I was on the bridge looking out for the Fastnet light.  I saw a light through the thick, flashing, which I took to be the Fastnet.  I then put the ship on our course for Milford Haven.  We had not been steaming long before we struck the shore, then when the fog lifted a little I found we had struck the north side of Sheep Island in Bantry Bay (Sheep Head), the fog then coming on as bad as before.  We arrived in Milford on Saturday morning, May 22nd, 1909.

 

1.20 a.m., 21.05.1909. Sheep Head, Bantry Bay - struck the ground.  Cause - fog.

    J. Blake (Skipper)

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 20th September 1911:

 

TRAWLER SOLD

    The steam trawler "Colwyn" (Mr. D. Pettit), has been sold to a Japanese firm, and will be replaced by a new vessel.  The "Colwyn" was formerly known as "Dorothy", and was built for the late Mr. W. Page.  She was afterwards owned by Mr John Pettit.   .....  One by one the older craft are disappearing, and more modern trawlers taking their place.

 

 

 

 

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