TEAL LO135

Official No:  99699     Port and Year: Grimsby, 1893 (GY509)

                                                               London, 1896 (LO135)

                                                               Aberdeen, c.1915 (A428)    

Description: Steel side trawler; single screw; coal fired; yawl rigged.  Wheelhouse aft.

Crew:

Built: 1893, by Mackie & Thomson, Glasgow. (Yard no. 69)

Tonnage:141 grt  54 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 98 / 20.5 / 10.7

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 35 rhp; by Muir & Houston, Glasgow.

Owners:

 

As GY509

Jul 1893: Great Grimsby Ice Co., Grimsby

 

As LO135

Mar 1896: Chas. T. Pannell, Stamford Hill, London

 

c.Mar 1907: Brand & Co., Docks, Milford

 

Dec 1913: Charles E. B. L. Curzon, Docks, Milford

 

As A428

c.Aug 1915: Standard Fishing Co., Aberdeen

 

Landed at Milford: 17 Mar 1907 - 28 Jul 1915

Skippers: W. Barnes (1893); George Smith (1913 - 14 Oct 1914)

Notes: Sister ship to HALCYON LO132 and CYGNET LO131 ("The little London boats")

1 Jun 1917: Captured by U-57 (Kapitänleutnant Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg), 57 miles NW by N of Sule Skerry Light (Orkney); sunk by gunfire, but crew taken off with no loss of life.

Accidents and Incidents 

 

From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of  Wednesday 17th December 1913:

 

    Mr. Brand and Co. have disposed of their smaller vessels, viz. Halcyon, Teal, Osprey and Cygnet, to Mr Curzon, the owner of the steam trawler Quebec, and they will remain in the port.  These vessels, known as the little London boats, have done remarkably well ever since they came to the port.

 

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