LORD ROBERTS M161

Official No:  112459   Port Number and Year: - in Milford, 1901

Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Nets and lines. Ketch rigged: mainsail, mizzen

Crew:  5 men, 2 boys

Registered at Milford: 22 Jan 1901

Built: 1885

Tonnage: - grt  10.91 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 55.5 / - /  -

Engine:

Owners:   22 Jan 1901: George Stewart Kelway, Hakin C. A. Purdy, Hakin

Landed at Milford:  6 Jan - 9 Jul 1901

Skippers:

Notes: 10 Jul 1901: Foundered off Milford Haven.  [See story below.]

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 25 Jul 1901

 Accidents and Incidents

From an unknown local newspaper of August 1901:

The fishing liner reported as having foundered off St. Ann's Head turns out to be the fishing liner "Lord Roberts" of Milford Haven, owned by Mr. George S. Kelway.  The "Lord Roberts", which carried a crew of four men, was towing the Danish barquentine "Freya" to the port of Llanelly.  The steering gear went out of order, and she drifted across the barquentine, when the anchor of the latter holed the "Lord Roberts", which sank within half an hour.  The crew succeeded in getting to land.

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