EXMOUTH BL7
Official No: 98825 Port Number and Year: Bristol, 1890 (BL7)
Description: Iron side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen
Crew: 10
Built: Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesborough, in 1891. (Yard no. 351)
Tonnage:133 grt 49 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 96.5 / 20.5 / 10.7
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 50 rhp. Worth McKenzie & Co., Stockport
Owners:
As BL7
1891: Western Steam Trawling Co., Bristol
Manager: Frederick John Sellick, 'Marine Villa', Murray Cres., Milford
1906: Sellick, Morley & Price, Docks, Milford
Manager: Sidney Morgan Price
Renamed ELIZABETH
1911: Zeeviss Maats 'Elisabeth', Ymuiden.
c.1916: Renamed ELNA?
Landed at Milford: 14 Sep 1891 - 24 Oct 1909
Skippers: 1891: Ebbesen; Garnham; Smart
1892: Smart; Limbrick; West
1893: Limbrick; Bromley; Scott
1894: Scott; Addy; Galvin; Stroud; Dayes
1895: Stroud
1896: Stroud
1897: Stroud; Watson; Bullen; Grey; Sandfield
1898: Setterfield; Stroud; Tucker; Dodd; Thomas
1899: Clarke
1900: Clarke; Bryant; Spurgeon; Maunder
1901: Maunder; Clarke;
1902: Maunder; Bradnum
1903: Maunder; Chenby; Masters; Maunder; Cutler; Bloomfield; Kilby
1904: Bloomfield; Scrrech; Cutler; Gibbs
1905: Thomas
1906: Thomas
Notes: Jul 1917?: Mined and lost; no survivors.
Accidents and Incidents
From the Irish Times of Thursday 1st November 1894:
WRECK OF A STEAMER AND LOSS OF 21 LIVES
A Milford Haven correspondent reports the loss of the steamer Tormes off the Crow Rock, Linney Head, bound from Malaga to Liverpool, with fruit and wine. She struck the rock on Tuesday night, and immediately broke in two and foundered, Twenty-one hands, including the captain and officers, were drowned. Seven only were saved, two sailors and five firemen, who were picked up by the steam trawler Exmouth and landed at Hakin. A later telegram reports three bodies and a portion of cargo such as that carried by the Tormes have been washed ashore at Freshwater Bay. The vessel is stated to have been of over 2,000 tons, with a crew of 28 hands all told. ..................
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From the Western Mail of Wednesday 3rd February 1897:
SHIPPING DISASTERS
MILFORD TRAWLER FOUNDERS
CREW RESCUED AND LANDED
The steam trawler Datura, of Milford Haven, struck the rocks off the Smalls at midnight on Monday, during a dense fog, and rapidly began to settle down by the head. The crew of nine hands took to the boat, and shortly after daylight on Tuesday were picked up near Grassholm Island by the steam trawler Exmouth (Captain Stroud), and brought to Milford. The Datura was returning from the fishing grounds at the time of foundering.
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From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 22nd March 1911:
The "Dartmouth", a steam trawler which some years ago was converted for the purpose of long lining, has been sold privately by Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price to Mr. John Grand and Charles Davies for £800. Other old trawlers such as the "Avonmouth", "Bournemouth" and "Exmouth" are, we believe, in the market for selling, and will be disposed of to make room for more up-to-date craft under the firm's management.
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From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 5th April 1911:
The steam trawler "Exmouth" has been sold privately to a firm at Ymuiden, Holland, whose representatives have been in the town for a few days negotiating. The sale of the "Exmouth" is another of the older vessels of the fleet of Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price which are gradually being cleared out. She will undergo repairs and leave for Holland in about a fortnight's time.
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