TYRWHITT LT583

Official No:  139345    Port Number and Year:   Lowestoft, 1919 (LT583)                                                                                Grimsby, 1927 (GY432)                                                                                 North Shields, 1930 (SN114)

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler, steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: 1917 by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 621)

Tonnage: 203 grt  88 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4  / 22.1  / 12.1

Engine: T.3-cyl; 74 rhp;  by builders

Owners: As BRAZIL BRASBY 1917: Admiralty   Renamed: TYRWHITT LT583 1919: Vanessa F Co. Ltd, Lowestoft. Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford   As GY432. Feb 1927: Orontes Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby Manager: W. H. Johnson   As SN114 Oct 1930: Rutherford Bros, North Shields. 1936: Renamed DENISEINA   Renamed BEN HOPE 1936: R. Irvin & Son, North Shields

Landed at Milford: 15 Dec 1919 - 22 Jan 1937

Skippers: Albert Edward Seeling (1923)

Notes: 31 Oct 1917: Launched for the Admiralty as BRAZIL BRASBY (Admy no.3631) and fitted with listening hydrophones. 1 x 12pdr; 1 x 3.5" bomb thrower. 1919: Sold to mercantile and renamed TYRWHITT. 1955: Broken up.

Accidents and Incidents

Statement dated 21 February 1923 by Albert Edward Seeling, of Great North Road, Milford, skipper:

 

    We spotted the schooner Clareen dismasted and drifting eastwards.  She showed no signals.  We had been cleaning the decks for an hour when we noticed the Trinity vessel coming in from sea.  It stopped close to us and blew the whistle, so we steamed up to him. He pointed to the schooner and asked us whether we could stand by and render assistance, or he would do so.  I told him we would do anything to render assistance, and then he left us.

    We steamed up to the schooner straight away.  By that time he was getting close to the Stack Rock.  We threw him our lines and he bent on his hawser which we took aboard and made fast.  As we were making it fast the master of the schooner asked us what we would charge to tow him in, but no reply was given to that. After towing him for seven minutes his warp parted.  We steamed up to him again and got our warp onto his vessel and made fast again. We again started to tow and brought him up to a safe anchorage off Milford Docks.

    We were towing him from 11.10. to 12 o'clock.  All of the schooner's running gear and masts were carried away, and his starboard bulwarks were down.  He was leaking very badly.  All hands were on the pumps when we got to him, and during the whole of the tow they were pumping hard to keep her afloat.

    The schooner Clareen's cargo was coal, 95 tons of it.  It was blowing strong from the west with very heavy seas during all the time we were of service to him.

 

 

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