MONMOUTH BL6

Official No:  98834     Port and Year: Bristol, 1892

Description: Iron side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: 1892, by Sir R. Dixon & Co., Middlesborough. (Yard no. 375)

Tonnage:140 grt  49 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 100.5 / 20.4 / 10.7

Engine: C 2-Cyl. 46 rhp., by North East Marine Engineering Co., Sunderland.

Owners:

 

Sep 1892: Western Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford

Manager: Frederick Joseph Sellick, 'Marine Villa', Murray Cres., Milford.

 

Landed at Milford:  9 Dec 1892 - 20 Nov 1895

Skippers: 1892: Raycroft

1893: Thomas; Kingston

1894 - 95: Thomas

Notes: 24 Nov 1895: Struck the Saltees, Co. Wexford, and foundered

 Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 8th June 1894:

 

SUDDEN DEATH AT SEA.―   An inquest was held at the Heart of Oak, Hakin, on Tuesday afternoon, before Mr J. Price, district coroner, touching the death of Henry Harner, fourth hand on the steam trawler "Monmouth", who died on Sunday morning.

    According to the evidence of William Thomas , the skipper, the deceased, who was a married man, joined the vessel in March.  The vessel left Plymouth on Sunday morning week, and proceeded to the Bay of Biscay, where she fished up to Saturday afternoon.  The deceased appeared in his usual health, and performed his duties up to Tuesday night when he complained of a cold and went to bed. He gradually got worse, taking nothing but bread and milk and a little brandy.  On Saturday morning, the deceased became delirious, and it was decided to run into Brest so that a doctor might see him,  but a thick fog arose and prevented them, and they at once steamed for Milford, arriving about twelve noon on Monday.  On Sunday morning at around nine o'clock, deceased got up and went on deck, where he remained for about twenty minutes, but on being requested by the skipper to go below, did so, the poor fellow expiring between twelve and one that morning, when the vessel was about twelve miles north east of Ushant.  In reply to the coroner the skipper stated that everything possible was done for the deceased, and one of the crew was always with him during his short illness. 

    Samuel Hooper, mate, and James Boylett, boatswain, gave similar evidence.

    Doctor W. Griffiths deposed to making a post mortem examination on the deceased; death was due to inflammation on the lungs.

    A verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was returned.

   The skipper of the vessel collected £5 towards the cost of the funeral expenses, and the coroner/the jury, and Mr Bough, landlord of the Heart of Oak, contributed their fees.

 

 

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