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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