ORION GY593

Official No: 109522     Port and Year:   Grimsby, 1898

Description:

Crew:

Built: 1898, by Mackie & Thomson, Govan  (Yard no.190 )

Tonnage: 150 grt 39 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  100.6  / 20.5 / 10.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl.

Owners:   Mar 1898: Orient Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby

Landed at Milford:  20 Aug 1900 - 14 Aug 1904

Skippers: 1900: Limbrick; Ebbesen; Walker. 1901-04: Walter Dayes.

Notes:  1906: Lost. [Circumstances unknown.]

Accidents and Incidents

From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 20th January 1904:

 

    The "Pembroke Castle" came into dock on Monday morning   ........

The same morning, the "Orion" reported that during the rough weather, one of the hands named Ted Leader was washed overboard, but was fortunately rescued by the skipper, Walter Day.

 

 

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