HYACINTH M173

Official No:  117481   Port Number and Year:   33rd in Lowestoft,  1903  (LT997)                                                                               14th in Milford, 1920.

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.  Lining and nets. Ketch rigged: mainsail,  mizzen.

Crew:  8 men

Registered at Milford: 9 Oct 1920

Built: 1903 by Smith's Dock Co., North Shields.

Tonnage: 78.92 grt  28.07 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 77 / 18.1 / 8.3

Engine: Two compound.  9 kts.  Engine and boiler by McColl & Pollock, Sunderland.

Owners:   As LT997 1903:  The Herring Fishing Co., Lowestoft   As M173 9 Oct 1920:  James Ritchie, 'Glenbrae', Wellington Rd., Hakin Manager Owner   22 Oct 1920:  James Ritchie, Wellington Rd., Hakin William Thomas Davies, Thomas Henry Powell, 45 Priory Rd., Milford James Edwards, Thornton, Milford Manager: J. Ritchie   7 Jan 1922:  James Ritchie       ) Thomas Henry Powell              ) Docks, Milford William Thomas Davies            )

Landed at Milford: 20 Feb 1920 - 13 Mar 1924

Skippers:

Notes: Jan 1915 - 1919:  Net vessel; Admy.no. 1058 May 1915: Renamed HYACINTH II 1919: Bought by Admiralty. 1920:  Sold to mercantile. 25 Mar 1924:  Foundered 20 miles off Holyhead

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 4 Apr 1924

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 28th March 1924:

    During a thick fog which prevailed in the Irish Channel on Tuesday night, the steam trawler "Hyacinth" of the port of Milford Haven, sprang a leak and sank. The trawler was bound from Fleetwood for the fishing grounds off Ireland, and carried a crew of eight.

    The Skipper of the "Hyacinth",  Mr D. W. Powell, a native of South Wales, who was picked up along with the rest of his crew on Tuesday night, states that when about twenty miles from the port of Holyhead on Tuesday evening the vessel sprang a leak, and as the ship's pumps could not cope with the situation, he and the rest of the crew thought they would have along swim. At 10.44 p.m. the fog was so thick that they could hardly see, and the trawler started to list with the amount of water rushing into her. "Our plight was getting desperate when the fog thinned out and in the nick of time the schooner "Ellen Annie" spotted us, came alongside and picked us up."

    The rescued fishermen of the "Hyacinth" which is owned by Messrs.  Ritchie & Davies, Milford Haven, were landed at the port of Holyhead on Wednesday morning.

    The "Hyacinth" has been lining of late, landing her trip at Milford. This was the very first time to try her luck out of the port of Fleetwood.

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