SETWEATHER R96
Official No: 137713 Port and Year: Ramsgate, 1919
Description: Wooden side trawler; steam; coal fired.
Crew:
Built: 1919, Oulton Broad
Tonnage:97.18 grt 41.3 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 87.4 / 20 / 10
Engine: -
Owners:
As SETWEATHER
18 Nov 1919: William James Ballard & Edward Geo. Newby
8 Apr 1931: William James Ballard & William Henry Stroud
28 May1935: William James Ballard
Renamed TANKERTON TOWERS
06 Jul 1935: Stanley Rowden, Ramsgate.
Landed at Milford: 18 Aug 1924 - 11 Mar 1928
Skippers: Charles Samuel Howes (1926)
Notes: Note by Michael Hunt:
"Setweather came to be known as an unlucky ship. In February 1926 skipper Charles Baker was knocked overboard and drowned off Beachy Head. In November 1932 she broke adrift in a gale and was badly damaged in Ramsgate’s Outer Harbour. In September 1934 she turned over and sank in the Inner Harbour. It was this succession of disasters that finally led to Stanley Rowden changing the vessel’s name when he assumed ownership in July 1935."
19 May 1941: Sunk by enemy action.
[Information kindly supplied by Michael Hunt, Curator, Ramsgate Maritime Museum.]
Accidents and Incidents
Note of Protest, June 1926:
On the fifth of June, 1926, we left the home port of Milford Haven for the fishing grounds off the west coast of Ireland. The weather conditions were very bad, strong winds and heavy seas. Round about ten thirty p.m. on the seventh, we developed engine trouble and made for the nearest port which was Rosslare Harbour. We found that it was impossible to effect repairs so we got towed back to Milford and arrived at St Anne's Head at eight p.m. on the thirteenth. While we were at Rosslare there was a heavy gale. We dragged our anchors and went aground on a sand bank, but we managed to get her off with out any assistance. Our small boat got damaged in the operation and sank with the loss of the rudder and stern sheets.
Charles Howes.
(Skipper) .
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