NEMOPHILA M20

Official No:    108436  Port Number and Year: 3rd in Milford, 1899                                                                                 -  in Cardiff (CF14)                                                                                 -  in Ijmuiden? 1910

Description:  Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw; coal burner. Ketch rigged, two masts:  mainsail, mizzen

Crew: 9 men

Registered at Milford: 20 Mar 1899

Built: J. Duthie & Sons, Aberdeen,1899.  (Yard no. 199)

Tonnage: 175 gross 48 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  111.2 / 20.8 / 11.3

Engine: T-3Cyl. 63 nhp.; made by Whyte & Mair, Dundee

Owners:   As M20 20 Mar 1899: D. Morgan, Aberavon.   8 Aug 1899:  Cornelius Cecil Morley, Co. Wexford William Geoff Davies Goff, Co. Wexford Manager: C. C. Morley   As CF 14 11 Nov 1904: Henry West. 37 Ninian Rd., Cardiff  Joshua John Neale, Lynwood Park Rd., Penarth. Manager:  J. J. Neale Renamed EMMA Pre1910: Dutch owners.   Pre1930: N.V Scheeps Exploitie Maats Emma (Scheeps Exploitie Maats “De Marezaton”), Ijmuiden.

Landed at Milford: 3 Dec 1900 - 4 Nov 1901

Skippers: Alfred Smith cert. no. 0922, age 42, born Ramsgate; residing 58 Hunter St., Cardiff; signed on  13 Jun 1899 Edwin Cox 4480, 33, Boston; Hope St., Cardiff; 14 Jul 1899; 10 Jan 1900 Charles Isaac Wildridge 1847, 35, Hull; 5 Cambridge St., Cardiff; 31 Mar, 9 Jul 1900; 11 Jan, 4 Jul 1901; 16 Jan, 9 Jul 1902; 14 Jan, 3 Jul 1903; 13 Jan, 13 Jul 1904. C. Webb 3292, 35, London; 12 Dec 1901. W. Read 6992, 33, Bristol; 23 Mar 1903..

Notes:  1938: Broken up.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 15 Nov 1904:  Vessel transferred to the port of Cardiff.

 Accidents and Incidents:

Log book entries:

 

18.10.1900

12 miles SW from Smalls Lighthouse

Port quarter bulwark plates and beadings, cement stove in and broken.  Whilst engaged in heaving upon net the steam trawler General Roberts, coming with the intention to speak to us, gave his vessel too much headway, which was the cause of the collision.

    Charles Isaac Wildridge (Skipper)

 

03.11.1901

40 miles WNW from Lundy Island

Boiler stays gone to leak badly, caused through excessive heat from fires in the furnaces with the bridges being built too far aft.

    C. I. Wildridge (Skipper)

 

04.12.1903

Bay of Biscay, Lat 48.2N, Long 6.33W

Broken propeller through something passing under our bottom unseen whilst steaming full speed.

    C. I. Wildridge (Skipper)

 

10.12.1903

Cape Finisterre

Whilst heaving up our fishing gear the winch broke down, and the trawl boards being on the ground, a heavy swell running caused the vessel to make a strong drift, and the boards kept digging in under the soil caused the after gallows centre bollards of board chains to buckle and break, and lost the trawl.  The cause of it all was through the valve worming being stripped off the rod in steam chest on winch.

    C. I. Wildridge (Skipper)

 

07.03.1904

Superintendent, Mercantile Marine, Cardiff

The skipper's attention has been called to the character for conduct.  He states that the men conducted themselves properly on board the trawler, but the drunkenness was reported to him having occurred on shore.

    F. Shaw (Supt.)

 

 

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