NARBERTH CASTLE H427

Official No:  109077    Port and Year:    Hull, 1898,

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

Crew:  9 men

Built: 1898, by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull.  (Yard no. 212 )

Tonnage: 168 grt  66 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  110  / 20.7 / 11

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 50 nhp.; Charles D. Holmes & Co., Hull

Owners:   Oct 1898: Castle Steam Trawlers (Thomas J. Oswald), Milford Manager G. H. D. Birt   1903: Castle Steam Trawlers, Swansea Manager: Crawford Heron   As GY203 Nov 1906: W. Richmond, Grimsby

Landed at Milford: 14 Nov 1898 - 20 Jul 1904

Skippers: 1898: Kingston 1899: Kingston; Scott 1900-02: Kingston 1902: Nightingale 1903: Kingston; Hardisty; Gray; Screech 1904: Screech; Jones; Barnes; Cobley; William Aldridge

Notes:  6 Apr 1917: Captured by UC-27 (Oberleutnant zur See Gerhard Schulz)  30 miles NNW of Dennis Head, and sunk by gunfire.  No loss of life.

Accidents and Incidents

From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 18th December 1901:

  

        On Saturday afternoon the steam trawler "Narberth Castle", Captain Kingston of Milford, which had left the port whilst proceeding to sea, sighted a steamer in distress about 30 or 40 miles off St Ann's Head, and on reaching her found her to be the coasting steam ship "Viking" of Chester.

    The crew of the "Viking" were in imminent peril, for the water was washing the decks when the boat from the trawler arrived on the scene and rescued them.  It appears something went wrong with the engines, she became unmanageable and sprang a leak, and had not the "Narbeth Castle" come along at the right time the fate of the poor men would have been sealed.

    After having the crew of seven men safely aboard his vessel, Captain Kingston immediately returned with them to Milford, where their needs were attended to by Mr G. S. Kelway, the agent of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society.

 

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Transcription of a letter in the Les Jones Archive:

Castle SteamTrawlers Ltd.,

South Docks, Swansea.

August  23rd, 1904.

 

 

The Superintendent,

Board of Trade,

Swansea.

 

Sir,

 

    The pencil marks on our log book were caused by not having a pen and ink aboard, but I will look out it

does not occur again, and the mutilations was caused by rats before I joined the ship, and I reported it at

Milford Haven Custom House at the time.

 

Yours truly,

 

William Aldridge.

(Skipper of "Narberth Castle") .

 

 

 

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