SYBIL LT77 / LO37

 

As LO37 (1889-95), courtesy of Robert Kettle

Thanks to Barry Banham for his identification of her under her LO registration

Official No:  86390   Port Number and Year: - in Lowestoft, 1885 (LT77)

                                                                          - in London, 1889 (LO37)

Description: Iron built carrier/beam trawler. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen

Crew:

Built: 1883: by Baltic Iron Works, Hull

Tonnage: 127.34 grt  59.31 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 98.7 / 21.8 / 10.2

Engine: C.2-cyl 45 hp; by Wood Bros, Sowerby Bridge

Owners:

 
Jun 1883: Hartlepool Fishing Co Ltd, Hartlepool (Registered at Stockton as a carrier.)

 

Aug 1884:  Joseph Craddock (?) & Frederick Morgan Brocklebank (gentleman), 7 Nicholas Lane, London EC.

28 Aug1884: Registered at Stockton.


12 Feb 1885: Refitted for trawling, as LT77 (Mar 1885)

Mar1885: Frederick Morgan Brocklebank (gentleman), 10 Belgrave Terrace, Lee, Kent

Manager: Henry George Jones, Lowestoft

 

1 Jan1889: As LO37.

19 Feb1890: London Trawlers Ltd, 12 Old Broad Street, London.  

Manager: Peter Hancock, Milford.

 

Landed at Milford:  27 Sep 1888 - 8 Dec 1893

Skippers: T. J. Wales; Henry Dove; Bromley; Walter Aldridge

Notes: 15 Mar.1885: Sailed Hull after refit for fishing grounds.

22 Mar.1885: Arrived Lowestoft.

1886: Mortgaged (A) to Arthur Bowen Forward (shipowner), Crown Court, Old Broad Street, London to secure sum due on account.

Mortgaged (B) to Charles Evans Newbon (barrister), 3 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, London (to secure £1000 at 10%).

27 Sep.1888: First vessel to enter newly opened Milford Docks, under Skipper Thomas James Wales.

Feb 1890:  Involved in salvage of ADMIRAL [See story below.]

8 Aug.1890: Mortgaged (A) transferred to Marine Securities Corporation Ltd, 3 Crosby Square, London.

4 Apr1892: Mortgaged (B) transferred to Henry Wyatt (gentleman), 23 Hall Mansions, South Kensington, Middlesex.

15 Aug 1892: Mortgage (B) transferred to Charles Evans Newbon & Hugh Douglas Charles Grace (gentleman), 10 Craigerne Road, Blackheath, Kent.

3 Aug1893: Mortgage (C) to John Inglis & James Herdman (shipbuilders), Leith NB (to secure £730 at 6% interest).

Dec 1893: Stranded on Irish coast (Sk. J. Wooldridge). Crew rescued by rocket apparatus at Templetown Cove.

7 May 1894: Mortgage (A) sold to Shipping Auction Co Ltd, 21 Billiter Street, London.

Fate: 3 Oct 1895: London registry closed; vessel sold to German owners.

The above information was supplied by Roger Griffiths, Barry Banham and Gil Mayes

 Accidents and Incidents

 

Alongside below Victoria Road, leading up to Front Street (Hamilton Terrace).

Courtesy of Robert Kettle

 Note of Protest, Monday 10th February 1890 :

 

Note of Protest by Captain Thomas James Wales, master of the steam trawler "Sybil", port of registry London.

 

On the eighth instant at seven-forty am, we left this port of Milford Haven with the vessel being in charge of Skipper T. J. Wales, bound for and through the Irish Sea to the fishing grounds.

 

That at one-forty pm, when about seventeen miles northwest of the St. Ann's Lighthouse, he sighted a steamer flying signals of distress, and he steamed up to her and he spoke to the skipper and boarded her.  He was told by the master of the "Admiral" that the machinery was so much damaged that he would require his assistance to tow his vessel into port.  He then sent his own engineer on board the "Admiral", and asked the engineer of the "Admiral" if the engines could be repaired in any manner so that she would be able to get into port under her own power without assistance.  They were told that it was impossible for anything to be done at sea.  He then asked the master of the "Admiral" if it was possible to get his vessel into port without their assistance, as he preferred to proceed to the fishing grounds, and the master of the "Admiral" replied "We cannot get into port without you.  You must tow my vessel in.  My ship is not carrying any sails."

 

The weather being fine at the time preparations were made for towing, and the "Sybil" having passed her tow rope, and having taken the "Admiral's" tow rope, at two-twenty am, they proceeded to tow the vessel. The wind freshened from the south-east to a gale with a high sea, and at three-thirty am, the tow rope parted and a new tow ropes were taken on board again with some risks as both vessels were rolling heavily at the time, but no damage was sustained by either of the said vessels, and we proceeded again towing towards Milford Haven, the wind blowing very heavily the whole distance ,and at eight am, we arrived at the Docks at Milford Haven.

 

Thomas James Wales.

Master

 

As LT77 (1885-88).  From a local newspaper cutting in the Les Jones Archive.

 

 

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