SAVAGE M13

Official No:  62794    Port Number and Year:  -   in Milford, 1886.

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

Crew: 2 men, 1 boy

Registered: 22 Nov 1986

Built: Pembroke, 1869

Tonnage: 16.1 grt

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 44 / - / -

Engine: -

Owners:   1869: Patrick Sloane, Pembroke Ferry, Pembroke.   By 1875: Samuel Buley, Quay Hill, Tenby.   By 1884: William H. Glanville, Quay Hill, Tenby.   As M13 22 Nov 1886: George Rowe, Quay Hill, Tenby Richard Henry Rowe, 3 Harding St., Tenby C. J. Williams   30 Oct 1893: Richard Henry Rowe, 3 Harding St., Tenby

Landed at Milford: [Landed at Tenby.]

Skippers: Samuel Buley (b. Brixham); George Rowe; Richard Henry Rowe.

Notes:  1869-85: Presumably not registered for fishing.

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 31 Dec 1896.  Broken up as no longer seaworthy.

 

Accidents and Incidents

 

From "The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser" of Friday 20th September 1878:

 

TENBY

    A remarkably fine sturgeon, weighing nearly one cwt. and a quarter, and measuring nearly six feet, was caught in Tenby bay on Saturday morning by the fishing smack Savage, S. Bubey [ sic ] master.  The fishermen found a ready sale for their prize in the town.

 

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