FLYING SCOTCHMAN M20

The paddle trawler FLYING SCOTCHMAN in the newly-opened Dock, c.1888

[From Warburton J (1984): Milford Haven in Old Postcards.]

Official No:  80440   Port Number and Year:  -  in Milford, 1888

                                                                            -  in Dundee, 1890 (DE42)

Description: Steam paddle coal burner; iron side / beam trawler.

Crew: 6 men, 1 boy

Registered at Milford: 25 Jan 1888

Built: J. T. Eltringham, Stone Quay, South Shields; in 1879.  (Yard no. 76)

Tonnage: 111 grt  41 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 98.8 / 18.2 / 9.5

Engine: One lever, one cylinder; 70 rhp; by J.P. Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields.

Owners:

 

25 Jan 1888:  Pembrokeshire Steam Trawling Co.

J. Phillips, 27 Hamilton Tce., Milford

William Wolfe.

 

As DE42

1890: William High,  Dundee.  (Fish merchant)

[See photograph below.]

 

Landed at Milford:  [Landed at Neyland before Milford Docks opened 31 Jan 1889 - 9 Nov 1890

Skippers: D. Griffiths cert 2067, age 58, born Cardigan, residing - ; signed on 2 Jan, 3 Sep 1888

George Bartlett 0275, 30, Brixham, - ; 6 Feb, 21 Jul,

Thomas May 0162, 48, Brixham, Railway Hotel, Victoria Rd., Milford; 3 Sep 1888; 9 May 1889

William Barrett 34321, - , Middlesborough, - ; 6 Jan 1889

Robert Limbrick 758, 30, London, Mount Pleasant Rd., Brixham; 6 Feb 1890

Notes: 19 Mar 1879: Launched as a steam paddle tug.

1895: Renamed TITCHFIELD

Dec 1902: Broken up at Annalong, Co.Down.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 3 Dec 1890.  Vessel transferred to the port of Dundee.

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entries:

 

8 May 1888

Marloes Sands

Stranded, dense fog.

    D. Griffiths (Skipper)

 

27 Jun 1888

Dismasted 25 miles WNW of the Smalls.  The heavy haul of fish split the bag and brought the mast down.

    D. Griffiths (Skipper)

 

25 Jan 1889

J. Johnson from Neyland was injured.  The nature and cause of the accident was jammed by a hand spike.

    William Barrett (Skipper)

 

26 Dec 1889

N. Rees, Chief Engineer, and R. Cochrane, fireman, were punished by a fine, for causing delay to the ship.

    R. Limbrick (Skipper.

 

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The Times, Friday, Feb 15, 1889; pg. 11; Issue 32623; col F
     Disasters At Sea.

 

Last evening there were landed at Swansea the crew of the ship South Australian.  They were brought to the port by the steam trawler Flying Scotchman of Milford, which had taken them from the schooner Spray, of Wexford, bound from Swansea to Plymouth.  This vessel picked them up in the Bristol Channel, where for 12 hours they had been drifting in a boat.

 

In Dundee Harbour.

Behind the "Flying Scotchman" is the "Flying Scud", DE 48.

Courtesy of www.photopolis.org

 

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