MINNIE BM90

Official No:  114253   Port and Year:   Brixham, 1904.

Description: Wooden smack; ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: J. W. &  A. Upham,  Brixham; in 1904

Tonnage: 51 grt  40 net

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

Engine:

Owners:   7 Mar1904:  William Burgoyne, 6 Higher Furzeham Tce. Brixham 10 Sep1912:  Minnie Down Burgoyne, Queens Rd., Brixham   Date?:  M. D. Hurst,  72, Priory Rd., Milford

Landed at Milford: 10 May 1904 - 15 Jun 1923

Skippers:

Notes: 18 Jun1923: Destroyed by fire and foundered off Black Water Bank. [See below.] [Information from Brixham Heritage Sailing Trawler Archive.]

Skipper's statement:

 

    We sailed from the port of Milford Haven for the fishing grounds off the Southern Irish Coast, this was on the 16th June 1923.

    On about 10.30 to 11.00 o'clock on the Monday the 18th of the same month, we noticed that the smack's hold was on fire.  We did every thing that was possible to contain the blaze but we were fighting a losing battle.  When the fire took too big a grip I decided to run the vessel onto the Blackwater Bank, off Wexford.  This was about 4 o'clock on the same day.

    The Milford fishing smack "Louie Rigby", which was standing by us, came in and picked us up. We had been aboard the "Louie Rigby" only one hour before the "Minnie" was completely burnt out and sank.

 

Samuel Willard Richards.

 Skipper  

 

 

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