LUCANIA CF11
Official No: 106713 Port and Year: Hull, 1896 (H332)
Cardiff, 1904 (CF11)
Description: Iron side trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw. Ketch rigged.
Crew:
Built: 1896, by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley. (Yard no. 156)
Tonnage: 187 grt 73 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 112.5 / 21.2 / 11.3
Engine: T.3-Cyl., 60 nhp 10.5 kts; by Charles D. Holmes, Hull
Owners:
As H332
1896: E. J. Williams & Co., Hull
1900: Joshua Neale & Henry West, Cardiff1904: As CF11
1911 Neale & West Ltd, Cardiff
Landed at Milford: 1904: 18 Dec; 1905: 18, 30 Oct; 29 Nov; 1906: 3, 29 Mar; 19 Jun; 24 Aug; 1907: 13 Feb.
Skippers: Fred Hardisty (1904-05); John Johnson (1906-07)
Notes: 1911: Sold to Japanese buyers
Accidents and Incidents
From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 20th January 1904:
Tidings were received at Milford on Sunday to the effect that a fireman named Henry Joy, whose home is in Robert Street, Milford, but who at the time was engaged on one of Messrs Neale & West trawlers, the "Lucania" of Cardiff, has been washed overboard in the Bay of Biscay. This case is a particularly sad one, as the deceased leaves a wife and four children.
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The Times, Aug 12, 1905; pg. 4; Issue 37784; col E
Probate, Divorce, And Admiralty Division.
THE BROOMFIELD
This was an appeal from a decision of his Honour Judge Owen sitting in Admiralty in the County Court of Glamorganshire held at Cardiff, by which he found that the owners of the steamship Broomfield alone to blame for a collision which occurred between their steamship and the steam trawler Lucania in the Bristol Channel on September 7, 1904. It appears that the Lucania, a steam trawler of 73 tons net register, with a cargo of fish on board and bound for Cardiff, was about 9.30 p.m. on September 7, 1904, lying off Bull Point, in the Bristol Channel, heading about north. Her engines were stopped, and she was lying waiting for the tide with her regulation under-way lights exhibited when the Broomfield, outward bound from Barry with a cargo of coal, collided with her, the bluff of the Broomfield's port bow coming into contact with the bluff of the Lucania's starboard bow. The owners of the Lucania alleged that the collision had been brought about by those on board the Broomfield keeping their speed and porting their helm instead of starboarding their helm and stopping their engines. The case made for the defendants in the Court below was that the Broomfield, a steamship of 1,526 tons net register, was proceeding down the Bristol Channel on a voyage to Rio de Janeiro, on a course of west-half-south magnetic, her regulation under-way lights being duly exhibited. While so proceeding, about 9.30 p.m. those on board the Broomfield saw the masthead and green light of the Lucania about two miles off and about three points on the port bow. The Broomfield kept her course until the Lucania was between two and three ships length off, when her engines were stopped and reversed full speed astern and three short blasts were given on the Broomfield's whistle, and immediately before the collision the Broomfield's helm was put hard-a-port. The defendants alleged that it was the duty of the plaintiff's vessel, which was under way, to keep out of the way, as the vessels were crossing ships within article 19 of the collision regulations. The plaintiffs' contention was that, as they were lying to, the crossing rule did not apply, and that the Broomfield should have kept out of the way. The learned County Court Judge held that he was bound to decide in favour of the plaintiffs on the authority of "The Helvetia" (3 Asp.M.L. Cases, 43).
Mr. Laing, K.C., and Mr. R. H. Bulloch appeared for the appellants, the owners of the Broomfield; Mr. Aspinall, K.C., and Mr. Noad appeared for the respondents, the owners of the Lucania.
The president, in giving judgement on Tuesday, said upon the facts the true view was that these vessel were crossing; and, as article 19 of the collision regulations applied to them, it was the duty of the Lucania to keep out of the way. He did no think "The Helvetia", which was decided under the former Act of Parliament, had any application to the present case; and the result was that the appeal would be allowed, and there would be judgement for the defendants, with costs here and below.
Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane. ― I agree.
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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 18th April 1906:
SKIPPER'S TRAGIC DEATH. ― On Friday week last tidings were received that Captain Johnson of the steam trawler "Lucania", belonging to Messrs. Neale & West, Cardiff and Milford, had been taken seriously ill on the distant fishing grounds off the Spanish coast and had to be put into Ferrol. Whilst there his condition became critical and H.M. gun boat "Hogarth" [ sic ] called at the port and took him on board and conveyed him to Plymouth. Relatives from Milford thereupon left for that place to meet the arrival of the vessel. On Saturday morning the sad intelligence arrived that death had intervened and relieved the patient of his sufferings. The deceased, who had been in Milford a number of years, had been in poor health for a long time past, but was possessed of bright spirits which enabled him to continue his vocation. He leaves a widow and six small children with whom profound sympathy is felt in their terrible bereavement. ― The funeral took place on Monday.
[ Note: There has never been an HMS HOGARTH in the Royal Navy. The Cressy Class armoured cruiser HMS HOGUE, returning from the China station, arrived at Ferrol at 2.11 p.m. on Saturday 7th April 1906, and left at 3.30 p.m. on Monday 9th April, arriving at Plymouth Sound on Wednesday 11th April. (PRO ADM 53/21988) ]
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