CHARLES PEARCE  M4

Official No:  15530   Port Number and Year: - in Bideford, 1848  BD?                                                                              - in Milford, in 1869

Description: Wooden sailing smack, trawling.  Cutter rigged.

Crew:  2 men, 1 boy

Registered: 8 Apr 1869

Built: Newlyn, 1848

Tonnage: - grt ; 19 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 36 / - / -

Engine: -

Owners:   1848: Unknown Bideford owner.   By 1866: Elizabeth Jones, Tenby By 1869: M4   By 1874: David Jones, Tenby.   By 1894: Thos. Morris, 37 Front St., Pembroke Dock. Managing owner. 2 Nov 1899: Milford registration closed.   By 1909: George A. Morris, 40 Front St., Pembroke Dock. Managing owner.

Landed at Milford: [Probably landed at Tenby.]

Skippers: John Davies; Thomas Harries; George T. Lewis.

Notes:

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 2 Nov 1899; no longer fishing.

 Accidents and Incidents

 

From The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser of Friday 17th June 1870:

 

THE TENBY FISHERY

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..............   But, besides fish, the trawls often bring up large anchors, quantities of firewood, and other debris of wrecks.  One day last week the Charles Pierce netted so large a quantity of blubber-fish that the beam could hardly be drawn up on deck.

    The number of trawlers which at present make Tenby their head-quarters is about thirty and upwards of one hundred men are employed.

 

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