ELIZABETH  M180

Official No:  71870    Port Number and Year:    -    in Brixham, 1875 (DH876)                                                                                2nd in Milford, 1903

Description: Wooden sailing smack; beam trawling.  Ketch rigged

Crew: 3 men (1903).

Registered: 17 Oct 1903.

Built: 1875, Brixham.

Tonnage: 43.7 grt  43.7 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 60.1 / 17 / 9.4

Engine: -

Owners:   As DH876 1875: Samuel Wheaton Lewis, Brixham.   As M180 17 Oct 1903: John Joseph Smith, Tenby. (Fishmonger)

Landed at Milford: 28 Jan 1906 - 7 May 1907.  [Otherwise at Tenby.]

Skippers: Thomas Richards, 1906.

Notes:

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: Milford Register (1902-26): "Certificate cancelled and registry closed 12th April 1910.  Vessel broken up at Tenby.  Advice received from Owner. J.W. Crocker. Reg."

 

Accidents and Incidents

From the Cardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News, of Saturday 25th December 1909:

 

TENBY TRAWLERS DAMAGED.

        On Tuesday night a gale from the south-east sprang up at Tenby, and great anxiety was occasioned because of half-a-dozen trawlers which had not returned to harbour with the others which had made for port in the afternoon.  The boats were Elizabeth (Mr J. Smith, owner),  Gratitude (Mr. J. Smith),  Restless (Mr. T. Lillycrop), White Violet (Mr. W. Rowse), Providence (Mr Aaron Kingdom), and Willie (Mr William Thomas). The wind blew with tremendous force, and the sea both upon the north and south beaches was very heavy. The red lights upon the landing stage of the Victoria Pier could not be seen for spray, and the seas broke over the gangway leading to the lifeboat house. At 9 o'clock the lifeboat crew assembled, by order of Dr. Bryant, in the expectation that they would be required to go to the assistance of the trawlers which were out in the bay, and they remained on duty till 5 yesterday morning. The trawlers, however, managed to keep to windward until there was sufficient water to enter the harbour, which was about 11 o'clock. They did not get in without suffering considerable damage. The Providence smashed her pump and began to fill with water, also losing her mid-ship rail and main gaff; the Restless carried away her main boom. The Gratitude and the White Violet collided on entering the harbour, the former carrying away her mizzen boom and bowsprit, and the White Violet her mizzen boom. The Elizabeth was undamaged. A vessel supposed to be the Willie is in Caldey Roads.

 

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