ROCHE CASTLE H419

Official No:  109064    Port and Year:   Hull, 1898

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

Crew:

Built: 1898; by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull.  (Yard no. 211)

Tonnage: 165 grt  59 net

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

Engine: T.3-cyl; 54 rhp;  by Charles David Holmes & Co., Hull

Owners:   Oct 1898: Castle Steam Trawlers, Milford Manager: G. H. D. Birt Apr 1904: Castle Steam Trawlers, South Dock Basin, Swansea Manager: C. Heron   Renamed NIKOLAI 1907?: Gebr. P. & C. Malachoff   Renamed SAAREMAA 1919: Unknown (Finnish?) owners.

Landed at Milford:  13 Oct 1898 - 14 Jul 1904

Skippers: 1898-1902: Nightingale 1902:Ellis. 1903: Walker; Rowlands; Nightingale; Salter; Smith; King; Gardner; Screech 1904: Screech; Barnett; King; Cook.

Notes: Jun 1921: Lost, Baltic Sea.

Accidents and Incidents

 From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 27th January 1904:

 

    The steam trawler "Roche Castle" was towed from the Bay of Biscay fishing grounds by the steam trawler "Victoria" on Tuesday, having damaged her rudder.

 

 

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