W H PODD M1
Official No: 128767 Port Number and Year: 1st in Milford, 1914
- in Glasgow, 1921 (GW34)
- in Aberdeen, 1946 (A206)
Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen.
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 28 Jan 1914
Built: 1913 by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen. (Yard No. 540)
Tonnage: 224.58 grt 87.02 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 117.5 / 22.5 / 12.15
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 75.5 nhp. 10.5 kts Engine and boiler by builders.
Owners:
28 Jan 1914: W. H. Podd, Trawl Market, Lowestoft.
Manager: Brand & Co., Docks, Milford
As GW34
1923: John Stuart Boyle, Ardgowan, Shawlands, Glasgow
1935: Mrs J S Boyle, Glasgow
Manager: R Allen.
Renamed FORVIE BRAES A206
1946: G Walker, Aberdeen
1953: Andrew W. King, 172 Market St., Aberdeen
Landed at Milford: 27 Jan 1914 - 17 Feb 1915; 10 Apr 1919 - 4 Nov 1921.
Skippers: Robert Limbrick, 1914. W.H. Blockwell ,1915
Notes: Sister ship to NOOGANA and NAIRANA.
Feb 1915: Requisitioned by Admiralty as minesweeper (Admy. No.154). 1 x 6 pdr. AA
1919: Returned to owners.
1959: Broken up by Ship Breaking Industries at Charlestown, Fife, for the sum of £1850
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 6 Dec 1921. Vessel transferred to the port of Glasgow.
Accidents and Incidents
From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 4th February 1914:
Another addition has been made to the fleet of steam trawlers under the management of Messrs. Brand and Company by the arrival for Wednesday's market of the steam trawler W H Podd, owned by the gentleman of that name. She is a sister ship to the Nairana and Noogana, and is similar in size and in most of her equipment. Her measurements are: length 117 feet, breadth 22 feet. The vessel had been turned out by that well-known yard of H. Russ and Company, Aberdeen. Her maiden trip realised, from the time of leaving the dockyard to landing at Milford (12 days), £208. Her skipper is Mr. F. Limbrick.
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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 29th January 1915:
The steam trawler W H Podd, owned by Messrs Brand & Co, returned to port on Friday in tow of another trawler, with a broken rudder. The mishap occurred about 30 miles off St Anne's Head.
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