TEESMOUTH BL6

Official No:  117731  Port and Year: Bristol, 1906  (BL6)

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

Crew:  10 men

Built: 1906 by Dundee Shopbuilding Co., Dundee (Yard no. 171)

Tonnage: 190 grt  - net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115 / 21.4 / 11.4

Engine: T-3Cyl.  67 nhp    Engine by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Glasgow; boiler by Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co., Jarrow on Tyne

Owners:

 

As BL6

Dec 1906: Western Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford

Manager: Fred Sellick

 

Renamed YUG

Apr 1913: C. J. Spahde, Archangel, Russia

 

Landed at Milford: 11 Jan 1907 - 22 Jan 1913

Skippers: F.M. Hawkins (1910)

Notes: 20 Dec 1915: Crushed in ice; Mudiuga area, White Sea

Accidents and Incidents

 

From the Irish Times of Tuesday 15th November 1910:

 

ILLEGAL TRAWLING IN BANTRY BAY

HEAVY FINES

                                                                                                                                Bantry, Monday.

 

    At the Bantry Petty Sessions today, before Mr. J. Gilhooley, M.P., (presiding), B.R. Purdon R.M., and B. O'Connor, J.P., there were 5 prosecutions at the suit of the Department of Agriculture against English trawlers for illegal trawling in Bantry Bay on the 14th ult., within the prohibited area.

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    The first case was against John Beck, Milford Haven, of the steam trawler Orfin, owned by the Pater Steam Trawling Company, Limited, Main Street, Pembroke.

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    The Chairman said that the defendant would be fined £75, and costs, £5 5s.

[Note: No ORFIN listed in Olsens 1908 and 1911.]

    Francis Monley Hawkins, Milford Haven, master of the Tees Mouth [sic], owned by the Western Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. Shannon Court, Bristol, was prosecuted for a similar offence.  ............... The defendant was fined £25 and £5 5s. costs.

    Thomas Salter, Starbuck Road, Milford Haven, skipper of the steam trawler Dinas, owned by Thomas George Hancock, and John Davies Harris, both of Milford Haven, was prosecuted for a like offence. ..............  The defendant was fined £75 and £5 5s. costs.

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    Joseph Huddlestone, Hakin, Milford Haven, master of the steam trawler Persia, owned by George Hoggarth [sic], Douglas Birt, Milford Haven, and Henry Hyde Heltal, of Fitzjones avenue, London, was prosecuted for a similar offence.  ......... The defendant was fined £75 and £5 5s. costs.

 

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 11th September 1912:

 

    The crisis in the Milford fish trade is the one topic of conversation in the town and port.  The exodus has already commenced, and grave concern is being expressed as to what will be the end of it all.  Of the intentions of Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price, our readers are fully cognisant, yet there is hope that developments may take place which will be the means of preventing the loss of the entire fleet to Milford.  Much of course depends upon the results of the trading to Fleetwood by the six trawlers which have been transferred.

    The boats which have left for sea during the last few days, and which will run for the next three months to Fleetwood, are the steam trawlers "Teesmouth", "Tacsonia", "Sidmouth", "Uhdea", "Essex" and "Syringa".  Messrs. F. B. Rees and A. Rainbow, manager and salesman, have also left, together with Mr. W. Lewis as shoreman.  The firm have taken offices at Fleetwood, and all arrangements have been completed for the transfer of the business.

 

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 9th January 1913:

 

    During the past week the trawlers "Tacsonia" and "Teesmouth", Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price, and attached to the fleet working at Fleetwood, returned to the port for the purpose of overhauling and repairs.  A serious mishap befell the former vessel as she was entering the Docks.  She ran into the dock wall with such force as to knock her bow right round.  She is now on the patent slip, where several plates have had to be put in.  The "Teesmouth" has put to sea again for a trip.

 

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 18th April 1913:

 

    Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price, the largest firm of trawlers in the port, have this week sold their steam trawler Teesmouth to a Russian firm.  The vessel has for some time been fishing out of Fleetwood.

 

  

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