GWYNETH M224

Official No:    127415     Port Number and Year: 4th in Milford,1908

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

Crew: 9 men

Registered at Milford: 27 Apr 1908

Built: Dundee Shipbuilding Co., Dundee; 1908.  (Yard no. 198)

Tonnage: 251.53 gross 95.99 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  125.2 / 22.15 / 12

Engine: T.3-cyl. 73 nhp. 10 kts.  Engine by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge, Glasgow; boiler by David Rowan & Co., Glasgow.

Owners:   27 Apr 1908: Gwyneth Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford / 2 Stuart St., Cardiff Manager: Stanley Percy Christie, 'The Bungalow', Neyland.   Renamed ERLA 24 Apr 1914: Trillo, Gallianay del Valles, Barcelona.    Renamed T.27 1916: Russian owners.   Renamed OKUN 1923: Unknown owners.

Landed at Milford: 25 Apr 1908 - 13 Apr 1914

Skippers: William Henry Fransham cert. 4913, age 35, born Halversgate, residing 4 Gwili Rd., Hakin;  signed on 6 Apr, 9 Jul 1908 Walter Smith 7510, 36, Nottingham; 24 Jul 1908 C. Reed 1504, 35, Stratford, Hill St., Hakin; 5 Jul 1909 H. Hills 3190, 35, Ramsgate; 20 Aug 1909 T. Hargrave 6945, 30, Darlington; 20 Sep 1909 D. G.Harrison 6797, 37, Hull, 24 Sebastopol St., St.Thomas, Swansea; 19 Nov 1909; 14 Feb, 7 Jul, 25 Oct 1910 T. Duffy 7836, 28, Douglas IoM; 10 Oct 1910 J. R. S. King 8265, 29, Gorleston; 6 Jan 1911 William Jones 6707, 30, Plymouth; 21 Jun 1911 R. J. B. Sheldon 6238, 33, Plymouth; 6 Jul 1912; 13 Jan, 5 Jul 1913.

Notes:

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 24 Apr 1914.  Vessel bought by Spanish subjects.

 Accidents and Incidents:

Log book entries:

 

20.09.1908.

Irish Coast.

A. Jenkins, age 20, Second Engineer; British, born Swansea, residing at Milford.

Little finger of right hand crushed, afterwards amputated, caught in engine while oiling.

    W. E. J. Smith. (Skipper). 25.2.09.

 

18.12.1909.

December 18th to December 25th,Oporto.

Bulwarks and bottom plates damaged - heavy floods.

    D. Harrison. (Skipper).

    C. Leary. (Second Hand 3379)

 

10.01.1910.

Lisbon.

Touched bar - Touching bar leaving for Dundee.

    D. Harrison. (Skipper).

    C. Leary. (Second Hand 3379).

 

06.05.1910.

Struck dock wall a sliding blow. - cause - engines failing to go astern .

    D. Harrison. (Skipper).

    T. Duffy. (Second Hand).

 

18.10.1910.

In Lat. 52-42 N. Long 11-48 W.

P. Murphy, Cook, age 39; born Navin, Ireland, residing in Pembroke Dock.

Left leg badly torn below knee through fore warp taking leg round the middle bollard.

    Thomas Duffy. (Skipper).

    H.Crowder. (4th Hand) .

P. Murphy subsequently died. 11.11.1910.

 

16.1.11.

Off Morocco Coast.

H. Hollowell, age 21, 5th Hand; British, born London, residing Milford Haven.

Slipped down in fish pound, injured jaw.  Put ashore in Gibraltar hospital on the 17th  of January.

H. Hollowell ,deckhand, has this day been discharged on the grounds of injuries in the service of the ship.  Balance of wages £0-10-3d, paid

and delivered 17.1.11. Fee £0-2-0d. '

    J. R. S. King. (Skipper).

 

25.1.11.

While steaming from St.Vincent to Cape Roca on the 25.1.11 at 7 a.m. just before daylight, we came into collision with an unknown small sailing craft exhibiting no lights, 11 miles SSW off Cape Roca.

We stopped an hour to render assistance, while launching our small boat to the rescue. Two small boats came to the rescue, but could not understand them to know if their was any loss of life, it being very dark at the time of collision.

    J. R. S. King. (Skipper).

[ See local newspaper article below. ]

 

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From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 1st February 1911:

 

    The steam trawler "Gwyneth" arrived in Milford for Monday's market from the foreign fishing grounds.  Skipper King reported that whilst off the coast of Portugal last week, in the darkness they collided with a Portuguese open fishing boat, which foundered.  The crew members, unknown, were taken aboard another similar vessel, and it is not thought that any were drowned.  The cries of some of them in the water was said to have been pitiful.  The trawler steamed about in the vicinity for some time, giving assistance.

 

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