RICHMOND GY255 / LT135

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  108455    Port and Year:   Grimsby, 1897 (GY255)

                                                                 Lowestoft, 1925 (LT135)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Yawl rigged. Wheelhouse aft.

Crew:

Built: 1897; by Mackie & Thomson, Govan.  (Yard no. 138)

Tonnage: 161 grt  63 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 104.2  / 20.5  / 10.7

Engine: T.3-cyl; 45 rhp;  by Muir & Houston, Glasgow

Owners:

 

As GY255

Mar 1897: Hagerup & Doughty, Grimsby


Apr 1906 Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co., Grimsby

 
As LT135

c.1927: Waterloo Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford

Manager: John McLeod, Victoria Rd., Milford.

 

Landed at Milford:  As GY255: 30 Oct 1914 - 22 Feb 1915

As LT135: 1 Nov 1927 - 5 May 1935

Skippers:

Notes: 1917: Requisitioned by the Admiralty into the Fishery Reserve.

1919: Returned to owners.

17 May - Sep 1935: Laid up at Milford

1935: Broken up.

Accidents and Incidents

 From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 23rd September 1932:

 

    On Saturday morning, September 17th, when the steam trawler 'Richmond' was preparing to go to sea, the forward door of the condenser burst, releasing a quantity of hot water.  The chief engineer, Mr. A. J. Utting, who was in the vicinity, was scalded on the legs. He proceeded to Dr. Darling's surgery, where his legs were dressed.  Fortunately, the injuries are not of a severe nature, but they are certainly very painful, and unfortunately ill-timed for the sufferer, for Mr. Utting has been laid up for a long time, the result of a previous accident.

 

 

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