MERLIN M162

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  91652   Port Number and Year:   -   in Granton, 1885 (GN ?)                                                                           2nd in Milford, in 1901

Description: Wooden steam screw coal burner; lining and trawling.  Ketch rigged.

Crew: 6 men

Registered at Milford: 7 Feb 1901

Built: J. McKenzie Boat Builders, Leith, in 1885

Tonnage: 46.5 grt  18.52 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 67.3 / 17.3 / 7.32

Engine: by John Cran & Co Ltd., Leith

Owners:   As GN ? 1885:  J. L. Cuncliffe, Edinburgh (Granton registration?)   1900: George Phelps Eynon   As M162 7 Feb 1901:  Edward James Hellings, 5 Hamilton Tce., Milford James Hellings, 5 Hamilton Tce., Milford John Brown, 'Berlyn', Wellington Rd., Hakin Manager: E. J. Hellings, Docks, Milford

Landed at Milford:  24 Mar - 8 Jun 1900;  14 Feb 1901 - 1 Apr 1906

Skippers: 1901: Rimmer; Brown; Hancock; Brown. 1902 - 1904: Brown. 1905: Brown; Cornish; Sturley; Brown, Pook; Cornish; Nicholas; Cornish. 1906: Cornish; Evans.

Notes: 18 Apr 1906: Caught fire and foundered 40 miles SW of St. Ann's Head [See below.]

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 26 Apr 1906

 Accidents and Incidents 

From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 25th April 1906:

At daybreak on Wednesday last, when forty miles to the westward of St. Ann's Head, and about twenty miles off the Smalls Lighthouse, a fire broke out aboard the steam liner "Merlin" of this port.

The seat of the conflagration was in the engine room.  The crew, with their captain, W. Evans, worked with unflagging zeal for two hours to extinguish the outbreak, but all in vain, and the crew being in great peril of being overpowered by the fumes, they were compelled to leave the burning vessel and take to the trawler's small boat.  They stood by until the vessel burnt down to the water's edge, and were subsequently picked up by the Yarmouth drifter "Girl Kathleen", and brought into Milford.

The "Merlin" was owned by Messrs. J. Hellings and Son, fish salesmen.  This makes the third liner to be lost to the port of Milford recently.

 

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