PERFECT  M6

Official No: 52992     Port Number and Year:   -  in Colchester, 1866. (CK ? )                                                                                 -  in Grimsby, 1893/4. (GY ? )                                                                              5th in Milford, 1904.

Description: Wooden sailing smack; trawling.  Cutter rigged: jib, foresail, mainsail and topsail.

Crew: 3 men (1904).

Registered: 20 Jul 1904

Built: 1866, Brightlingsea, Essex

Tonnage: 19.52 grt  19.52 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 53.5 / 13.5 / 5.9

Engine: -

Owners:   As CK ? 1866: William G. Marshall, Little Field Lane, Grimsby. Managing owner. By 1894: As GY ?   By 1903: Amos King, 91 Orwell St., Grimsby.   As M6 20 Jul 1904:  James Bowen Rowlands, Altrincham, Cheshire.   2 Oct 1906: William Henry Gwatkin, 'Fernleigh', Abergavenny. (Builder)  Managing owner. Harry Vesey Saies, 'The Priory', Abergavenny.  (Draper)   29 Jul 1909: Sarah Isobel Hancock, Fort Rd., Hakin.

Landed at Milford: [Landed at Fishguard?]

Skippers: William Jenkins; Thomas Jenkins

Notes:  10 August 1875: Joseph H. Hempstead, seaman's apprentice on the smack PERFECT of Colchester, who refused the order of his Master, Robert Cross, of Brightlingsea, and staying in a public-house.  Sentence to 14 days hard labour and forfeit two days pay. [The Essex Standard, of Friday 13th August 1875.]

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 14 Nov 1910.  Constructive total loss at Fishguard, 31 Jul 1909. [No details reported in local newspapers at the time, as the loss was reported late.]

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