SCOTIA LO201

Official No:  120527    Port and Year:  London, 1905

Description: Steel side trawler; coal fired, steam screw.  Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: by Smith's Dock Co., North Shields, in 1905 (Yard no. 770)

Tonnage:   205 grt  51 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 117.8 / 21.6 / 11.5

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 75 rhp; by Shields Engineering Co., North Shields

Owners:   May 1905: G. H. D. Birt, Docks, Milford   1909: Foreign owners?

Landed at Milford: 18 May 1905 - 21 Dec 1909

Skippers: Harry Salter (1905)

Notes:

Accidents and Incidents

 From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 24th May 1905:

 

    Built to the order of Mr. G. H. D. Birt, the "Scotia", this fine specimen of the latest craft for trawl fishing, made her appearance on port on Thursday last.  The vessel is of the same class as the "Anglia" and "Dania", owned by the same gentleman, and the skipper is captain Harry Salter.

    Markets were down, very low, and her maiden voyage was rather small.

 

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 26th May 1909:

 

    The steam trawler "Scotia" (Mr. G. H. D. Birt) ran onto rocks off Bride on the coast of Cornwall in the mist a fortnight ago, and had to be towed into the port of Swansea.  The vessel was very badly damaged, and tenders for her repairs resulted in the following:  Hill's Dry Dock, Cardiff £1,095 (twenty days); Ocean Dry Dock, Swansea, £899 16s 8d (sixteen to eighteen days);  Diamond Dry Dock, Cardiff, £760 ( fourteen days);  Mordey, Carnet, Cardiff, £648 (eighteen days); Jersey Dry Dock, Swansea £545 (fourteen days).

    The last named tender has been accepted.

 

 

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