SAMUEL BARKAS M84

 

As Inverneill A474 (1937-52)

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  143910    Port Number and Year:  1st in Milford, 1920                                                                                -   in Granton, 1926 (GN69)                                                                                -   in Aberdeen, 1937 (A474)

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen.

Crew:  10 men

Registered at Milford: 30 Jan 1920

Built: 1917 by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 618)

Tonnage: 215.81 grt  93.28 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):115.4 / 22.1 / 12.1

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 56.7 nhp.10 kts.  Engine and boiler by builders.

Owners:   As M84 30 Jan 1920: Alfred Rainbow, (Fish salesman) (22/64) William Rainbow, (Fish salesman) (22/64) Harry Eastoe Rees, )14 Mirador Cres., Swansea. (Trawler owner) (21/64) Frank Berry Rees,   )                                            (Trawler owner) (21/64) Manager: H. E. Rees   16 Mar 1920: Rainbow Steam Fishing Co., Docks, Milford Manager: H. E. Rees   Renamed INVERNEILL GN69 9 Nov 1925: David Dryburgh, 27 Jessfield Tce., Leith Manager: Robert Bell (jnr.) Granton   1936:  R Baxter, Aberdeen  1937: As A474   1940: Bunch Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby  Manager: Herbert G. Crampin  ( Directed to Fleetwood under wartime control)   1949: Camperdown Fishing Co., Aberdeen Manager: J. Walker   1952: Transferred to Fleetwood 195?: Transferred back to Aberdeen

Landed at Milford: 7 Jan 1920 - 30 Oct 1925

Skippers:

Notes: 7 Jun 1917: Launched and completed as a minesweeper (Admy. no. 3650). 1 x 12 pdr. 1920: Sold to mercantile. 27 Feb 1929: Ran ashore in dense fog near Dunbar, East Scotland. Refloated with the assistance  of Leith tug EARL OF POWIS. 28 Mar 1939:  Attacked in North Sea by German aircraft; Mate John Carsey was wounded. 1956: Broken up at Charlestown, Fife

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 9 Nov 1925

 Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 25th December 1925:

 

    On Saturday morning the steam trawler "Samuel Barkas" came in and landed her cook, Mr Edward Chalk, a married man, living in Fulke Street, who was suffering from severe burns.  He was taken to Doctor Williams' surgery, and his injuries attended to, after which he was conveyed to the County Hospital, Haverfordwest.

    It appears that while the trawler was at sea, and Chalk was attending to his duties in the galley, something seems to have been in the coal of a very inflammable nature, for there was an explosion and a burst out of flames, which scorched the cook severely about the head.

   

     

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