LORD LEITRIM M62
TRIPP M62
Official No: 129968 Port Number and Year: 13th in Lowestoft, 1910 (LT623)
8th in Milford, 1915
- in Inverness, 1929 (INS39)
Description: Wood; steam screw, coal burning. Liner. Dandy rigged.
Crew: 8 men
Registered at Milford: 13 Aug 1915
Built: 1910, by Cochrane & Son, Selby.
Tonnage: 77.44 grt 35.97 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet):80.2 / 18.15 / 8.42
Engine: 16" Compound; 28 nhp.9 kts. Engine: Crabtree & Co., Great Yarmouth. Boiler: Riley Bros., Stockton on Tees.
Owners:
As LORD LEITRIM LT623
1910: Lowestoft Steam Drifters
1913: WT Tripp, Kessingland
As LORD LEITRIM M62
13 Aug 1915: William Henry East, 84 Priory Rd., Milford
Manager Owner
7 Feb 1919: William Henry East, 84 Priory Rd., Milford
William Edwin Luke, 'St. Lawrence Cottage', Hubberston
4 Dec 1919: William Henry East (jun.), 77 Waterloo Rd., Hakin (8/64)
William Edwin Luke, 'St. Lawrence Cottage', Hubberston (8/64)
Manager: William Henry East, 84 Priory Rd., Milford (48/64)
Jan 1922: Renamed TRIPP M62
6 Sep 1927: William Henry East, Docks, Milford.
Manager Owner.
Renamed WEST NEUK INS39
2 Sep 1929: William Backie, 16 Gordon St., Hopeman, Moray
Later: Mrs. Maggie A. Backie, Hopeman, Moray.
1945: As WEST NEUK BF375
George R. Wood, Aberdeen.
W. Mair, Portknockie
Landed at Milford: 2 Mar - 29 Apr 1914; 24 Jul 1919 - 11 Nov 1921
Skippers: James Edwards 8240
Charles Henry Johnson 6989
George Ernest Sturley 11395
William Charles Mayhew 2924
J. P. James 1924
Notes: Dec 1915: Requisitioned as LORD LEITRIM, a net / boom defence vessel (Admy.no. 2707); 1 x 6 pdr AA
1919: Returned to owners.
Apr 1940: Requisitioned for war service as WEST NEUK, a balloon barrage vessel.
Feb 1943: Returned to owners
c.1951: Broken up.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 2 Sep 1929. Vessel transferred to the port of Inverness.
Accidents and Incidents
From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 24th September, 1924:
On Monday morning, the steam trawler "Tripp", owned by the firm of Mr. W. E. East, towed into Fishguard harbour the vessel "R. Passmore", a ketch (wood) from Liverpool, after a thrilling experience in the severe gales which raged on Sunday last.
It was night time, off the Smalls, when the fishing liner saw the ketch showing signals of distress, and the skipper of the liner, Mr. J. P. James, of Dewsland Street, Milford, lost no time in heading his vessel towards the disabled sailing craft.
He found the men aboard (four hands) at the point of exhaustion, having been in distress for something like fifty odd hours. By fine seamanship the ketch was taken in tow and brought into Fishguard harbour on Monday morning.
The liner "Tripp" arrived in her home port of Milford the same night, and landed her voyage of fish yesterday morning.
The ketch "R. Passmore" was bound from Guernsey with a cargo of china clay.
[ R.PASSMORE, ON 96418, ketch, wood; registered Hull. Built 1890, J. Garside, Burton - Stather. Owners: D. W. Foreman, Dundee. ]
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