ARDENT M222
Official No: 127413 Port Number and Year: 2nd in Milford, 1908
Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen
Crew: 9 / 10 men
Registered at Milford: 9 Mar 1908
Built: 1908 by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co., Goole. (Yard no. 112)
Tonnage: 228.26 grt 68.37 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet):120.0 / 21.6 / 11.47
Engine: T 3-cyl. 68 hp. 10 kts. Engine: 1908, by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge, Glasgow. Boiler: 1908, by S. B. Richardson, Westgarth & Co., Middlesborough
Owners:
9 Mar 1908: Pater Steam Trawling Co., Main St., Pembroke / 83 Park St., Pembroke Dock.
Manager: Thomas Rees, Argyle St., Pembroke Dock. (Later, Tom Jenkerson)
Landed at Milford: 5 Mar 1908 - 19 May 1915; 24 Feb 1919 - 8 Dec 1935.
Skippers:
Robert Major Limbrick, Cert.7616, age 47, born London, residing 14 Upper Hill St., Hakin; signed on 19 Feb 1908
Robert Hastings 5529, 41, London, 3 Charles St., Milford; 27 May, 10 Jul 1908
James Macdonald 7989, 25, Hull, - ; 3 Nov 1908
J.R.S. King 8265, 28, Gorleston, Pill Rd., Pill, Milford ; 21 Jan, 18 Aug 1910
C. Masterson 5746, 34, Salisbury, Pill, Milford; 10 Jul 1910
Ben Richards 4475, 36, Tenby, 'Newlyn Villa', Park Place, Tenby; 14 Jan, 10 May 1911
J. Eded 7249, 27, Torquay, - ; 6 Mar 1911
Wm. Grieves Payne 2972, 44, Scarborough, Robert St., Milford ; 5 Jul 1912; 20 Mar 1913
J. Clark 3689, 48, Hull, Greville Rd., Milford; 16 Jul 1912; 7 Jan 1913
J. W. Beck, 6604, 1914
Notes: Jun 1916: Requisitioned for war service and converted for minesweeping duties (Admy.No.1798).Mar 1917: Renamed ARDENT II.
Laid up 3 Jan 1936 - 16 Apr 1937.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 18 Oct 1937. Vessel broken up at Llanelly.
Accidents and Incidents
From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 19th March 1909:
Nine Days in an Open Boat
SUFFERINGS OF DISABLED TRAWLER'S CREW
Queenstown, Monday
News has just reached here from Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, to the effect that the master, Captain Godfrey, and the deck hand of the steam trawler Monarch, of Cardiff, were picked up north of Kerry Head at midnight last night, after nine days in an open boat.
The disabled Cardiff steam trawler Monarch, on which seven men had been drifting since 17th inst., was picked up off the Blaskets Islands, West Coast of Ireland, late on Monday night by the Milford trawler Weymouth, and is being towed to port.
Captain Kilby, of the steam trawler Ardent of Milford, interviewed on Tuesday, stated that he was alongside the Cardiff trawler Monarch for a couple of hours on Sunday. The Milford trawler Weymouth was towing the Monarch under difficulties. The hawser parted once. While the Ardent was alongside, the Monarch's engineer told Captain Kilby that the fore engine was blown right out through the bursting of the condenser, badly injuring the second engineer, the mate, the third hand, and the cook. The Ardent offered assistance, but Captain Woodgate, of the Weymouth, said he was making for the nearest port. They were then about 80 miles south-east by east of Bull Rock Light, and Captain Kilby judged from the course steered and by the fog and wind prevailing, that the Weymouth was bound to make for Milford. She had not arrived by Tuesday night's tide.
The Monarch was owned by Messrs Neale & West, and several of the crews have their homes at Milford.
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From an unknown local newspaper from the week beginning 11th May 1930:
Three Milford trawlers were concerned in an exciting case of salvage off the Smalls on Sunday last. A steam hopper and tender was towing a big dredger from the port of Southampton to the Isle of Man and encountered bad weather in the Channel. In a strong wind, the towing warps parted and got entangled in the hopper's propeller and rendered the craft helpless. She was now being driven alongside the dredger, and the two vessels were badly damaged through the bumping caused by the roll of the sea. The Milford trawler "Ardent" (Pater Steam Trawling Company) came alongside and rendered assistance. She was followed by the steam trawler "E & F" (David Pettit, Limited), and the steam trawler "William Caldwell" (Mr. John Henry Dove). The "William Caldwell" took hold of the hopper and towed her to Milford, and arrived that afternoon, whilst the other two trawlers held on to the dredger, and they arrived in the Haven about 5.30 p.m. that day Both vessels were damaged and are now in Milford Docks undergoing repairs.
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