LYDIAN M232

Official No:  128743    Port Number and Year:  12th in Milford, 1908

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

Crew: 9 men

Registered: 23 Dec 1908

Built: 1908 by John Duthie (Torry) Shipbuilding Co.,  Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 331)

Tonnage: 243.98 grt  93.26 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 120.3 / 22.15 / 12.2

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 54 nhp. 10¾ kts.  Engine and boiler: James Abernethy & Co., Aberdeen

Owners:   23 Dec 1908: Stanley Arthur Laycock, Docks, Milford Manager Owner.

Landed at Milford:  30 Dec 1908 - 30 Jul 1914

Skippers: Peter Ebbesen cert. 01864, age 40, born Horsen, Denmark, residing Warwick Rd., Milford; signed on 19 Dec 1908 William Nightingale 4765, 39, Scarborough, Priory Rd., Milford; 1 Jan, 9 Jul 1909; 4 Jan 1910 John H. Pettit 7110, 27, Hull, 47 Dewsland St., Milford; 22 Feb, 9 Jul 1910 E. Wilkinson 4198, 41, Hull; 1 Sep 1910 William Bevan 6927, 35, Milford, Brooke Ave., Milford; 11 Oct 1910; 18 Jan 1912; 30 May 1913. B. Richards 4775, 38, Tenby, Park Place, Tenby; 7 Jun, 12 Jul 1912 George Gibbs 7184, 34, Gorleston, 51 St. Ann's Rd., Hakin; 21 Dec 1912; 3 Jan 1913.

Notes: Aug 1915: Requisitioned by Admiralty (No.162), and converted to an armed patrol vessel. 18 Sep 1915: Mined off the South Foreland. Mines laid by UC-6 (Kapitänleutnant Matthias Graf von Schmettow).

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 14 Dec 1915

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entries:

 

27.06.1909

160 miles W by S of St Ann's head.

Stern gland broken - over heating

    William Nightingale (Skipper)

 

15.09.1912.

65 miles SW of St Ann's Head

Twisted stern - cause - collision with CF37, a steam trawler

    Ben Richards (Skipper)

    A. T. Clarke (Second Hand 6332)

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From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 23rd October 1912:

 

    When the steam trawler 'Lydian' arrived in dock on Monday morning, the skipper, Dan Richards, was brought ashore suffering from severe injuries.  More than a week ago he had been badly burnt about the head and face as a result of an explosion of the acetylene gas, and resolutely sticking to his post, he decided to put back to port when the injuries did not respond to treatment.  The skipper's home is in Tenby, where he went by the first available train.

 

 

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