ARABIA LO251

 

As HENRIETTA JACOBA IJM.190

Thanks to Jan Harteveld.

Official No:  123743   Port and Year:  196th in London, 1906 (LO251)

                                                                     -     in Ymuiden, 1913 (IJM.190)

Description: Steel side trawler; single screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged.

Crew:  10

Built: 1906, Smiths Docks Co., North Shields.  (Yard no. 800)

Tonnage:  211 grt  70 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 117.3  / 21.5 / 11.5

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 71 nhp.  MacColl & Pollock, Sunderland

Owners:

 

9 Nov 1906: George H. D. Birt, Priory Lodge, Milford.

Managing owner.

 

As HENRIETTA JACOBA IJM.190

1913: Algemeene Visscherij Maatschappij, IJmuiden.

Managers: J.F. Klercq & E.H. Heijmans. (1918: J.F. Klercq.)

 

1920: Vereenigde Exploitatie Maatschappij (VEM).

Manager: J.F. Klercq.

 

1933: N.V. Visscherijonderneming De VEM.

Manager: Ir.F. Thiel

 

Landed at Milford:  19 Nov 1906 - 13 Apr 1913

Skippers:  H. Salter 827 (1907). T. Cooper 6628 (1913)

Notes: 

1938: Broken up.

Thanks to Jan Harteveld for her Dutch owners, and the photograph.

 Accidents and Incidents

From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 14th November 1906:

 

    The fleet of trawlers belonging to Mr. G. H. D. Birt was further augmented on Monday by the arrival of the s.s. "Persia" (Captain J. H. Dove).  The vessel is of the same class as the "India", which arrived a fortnight ago.  The initial trip realised £140.  Next week the sister ship "Arabia" is expected, and this line of vessels will be brought up to six, in addition to the Phoenix and Welsh Trawling Company ships also under the management of Mr. G. H. Birt.

 

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From The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser of Friday 15th February 1907:

 

MILFORD HAVEN

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    The heavy weather on Tuesday stopped fishing operations. On Wednesday morning the steam trawler Arabia (Capt. H. Salter) returned to dock and landed the cook suffering from internal injuries, having been knocked down by a heavy sea coming over the ship.

 

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 14th June 1911:

 

    During the week two steam trawlers, "India" and "Persia", belonging to Mr. G. H. D. Birt, have been sold to firms from Holland, and will be leaving the port of Milford shortly.  The vessels are only a few years old, and are of a class that has proved to be very successful.  We hear that in due course they will be replaced.  The steam trawler "Arabia" was not sold as at first rumoured.

 

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From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 12th February 1913:

 

    A remarkable fishing incident was reported at the docks last Tuesday, when two of Mr. Birt's trawlers landed.  The Arabia, Captain T. Cooper, had arrived back from the fishing grounds minus her fishing gear, which had been lost in fishing operations during the rough weather experienced at sea.  The Britannia (Captain William Jones), covering the same grounds with the trawl, heaved in a fine haul, but the bag contained something more than fish - a trawler's gear.  It was a coincidence that both trawlers should have landed the same day, and that they belonged to the same firm, but the most remarkable thing of all was that the gear of the Arabia should have been innocently recovered in such a wonderful manner.

 

 

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