ST. VINCENT GY502

Official No:  108498    Port and Year:   Grimsby, 1898

Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: 1898 by Edwards Bros., North Shields.  (Yard no. 582)

Tonnage: 173 grt  47 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 110.6 / 21.1  / 11

Engine: 

Owners:

 

Mar 1898: Grimsby Group Ownership

 

Landed at Milford: 1 Jan 1903 - 16 Aug 1909

Skippers: 1903: Dove; Pettit; Kilby.

1904-05: Kilby;

1905: Fears.

1906: Nichols; Cox

Notes: 22 Aug 1909: Foundered 30 miles NE by E of the Smalls. [See story below.]

Accidents and Incidents

From an unknown local newspaper of 12th June 1905:  

 

    Intelligence reports were received last week that a storm had been raging off the coast of Spain, where a number of the local trawlers are now engaged, ...

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    News was also previously received through the owners of the death of a fisherman, well known in the town, named Charles Watkins, of the steam trawler "St. Vincent", who succumbed at Lisbon to blood poisoning.

 

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 27th December 1905:

 

    Last week, whilst fishing in the Bay of Biscay, the steam trawler "Victoria" and the steam trawler "St. Vincent" collided, the former vessel striking the latter amidships and inflicting considerable damage to that vessel, and her bow was battered in.  The vessels arrived in Milford on Sunday.

   

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From a local newspaper of 25th or 27th August 1909:

The steam trawler "St. Vincent" foundered early on Sunday morning last, fifty miles off St Ann's Head, thirty miles northeast by east of the Smalls Lighthouse. The trawler was on the fishing grounds when through some unknown cause she sprang a leak, and the inrush of water became so great that despite the efforts of the crew to save her, she had to be abandoned, and the crew of nine men had to take to the small boat. There were also two young lads aboard who had gone for a pleasure trip. After a time they espied another trawler, the "Stormcock" of Liverpool, which seeing signals, bore down upon them, picked them up and brought them safely into Milford Haven, and thence the men rowed themselves ashore in their own small boat which had been their mainstay on the ocean's crest. The Skipper was Mr E. Cox.

 

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