HARFAT CASTLE LO172
Official No: 114520 Port Number and Year: London, 1902 (LO172)
Swansea, 1906 (SA ? )
Liverpool, 1906 (LL83)
Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged.
Crew:
Built: 1902, by Smith's Dock Co., North Shields. (Yard no.697)
Tonnage: 191.78 grt 49.14 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 110 / 21 / -
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 48 hp.; by North Eastern Marine Engineers, Sunderland
Owners:
As LO172
Sep 1902: Castle Steam Trawlers, London.
As SA ?
1906?: Castle Steam Trawlers, Swansea.
Renamed GADWELL LL83
1906: Harley & Miller, Liverpool
[Same owners in Olsen's 1914.]
Landed at Milford: 23 Sep 1902 - 22 Jun 1904
Skippers: 1902: Nightingale; Kingston
1903: Nightingale; Chamberlain; Davies
1904: John; Nightingale; Davies; Fletcher.
Notes: 25 Jul 1915: Sunk 6 miles W of Sumburgh Head, Dunrossness, by U-41 (Kapitänleutnant Claus Hansen)
Accidents and Incidents
From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 28th October 1903:
While at sea, an accident occurred on board the "Harfat Castle", by which the mate, Thomas Wood, sustained a fractured leg. The vessel arrived in dock at Milford on Friday afternoon. Wood was brought ashore and removed to the new infirmary, where his injuries were attended to. We believe this was the first time the ambulance car was used.
[ "Harfat" was the Pembrokeshire dialect name for Haverfordwest. Until the mid twentieth century, the town was affectionately known as "Honey Harfat". ]
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