ELECTRIC GY286
Official No: 96212 Port and Year: 5th in Grimsby, 1890 (GY236)
- - Scarborough, 1916 (SH ? )
- - Grimsby, 1919, (GY286)
Description: Iron side trawler; crabber; steam screw; coal fired. Well deck. Ketch rigged.
Crew: 13 men (1890); 14 men (by 1914); 10 men (1919).
Built: 1890, by Earles Co., Hull. (Yard no. 332)
Tonnage: 183 grt 79 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 107.4 / 20.5 / 11.5
Engine: T 3-Cyl; 55 rhp; by builders.
Owners:
As ELECTRIC GY236
25 Feb 1890: The Grimsby Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby
Manager: Henry Kelly, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. (1890-c.1912)
George E. J. Moody, Knoll House, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. (c.1912-15)
As SH ?
May 1916: Thomas Crimlisk, 10 John St., Filey.
Managing owner.
As GY286
Apr 1919: Reginald White, Fish Docks, Grimsby.
Managing owner.
Apr 1926: Charles Harold Bird, 'Wellington Villa', Wellington Rd., Hakin.
1928: Charles A Munning, 12, Hakin Point, Hakin
T. D. Davies, Picton Rd., Hakin
R. A. G. Taylor, Post Office, St. Ann's Rd., Hakin
Archie R. Locke, 3 Picton Rd., Hakin.
Manager: David Pettit, Docks, Milford.
Landed at Milford: 11 May 1926 - 29 Oct 1928
Skippers: 'Ginger' Knowles (1928)
Notes:
1917: Requisitioned into the Fishery Reserve
1919: Returned to owners.
3 Nov 1928: Foundered off Carnsore Point, Ireland. [ See newspaper article, and note below. ]
15 Nov 1928: Grimsby registry closed.
Accidents and Incidents
From The Irish Times of Thursday 3rd November 1927:
STEAM TRAWLER DAMAGED IN STORM
The steam trawler Electric, of Milford Haven, was compelled, owing to stress of weather, to put into Dunmore a few days ago. She came up to Waterford yesterday for survey, as she was found to be leaking, though not very seriously. She will be overhauled by a surveyor appointed by Mr. W. E. Jacob, Lloyd's agent at Waterford.
The Times, Tuesday, Nov 06, 1928; pg. 13; Issue 45043; col G :
News in Brief
The skipper and crew of ten men of the Milford trawler Electric, which was wrecked off the Irish Coast near Tresore [sic] Point about midnight on Saturday, were landed at Milford Haven yesterday.
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Statement made by Skipper Noel Bray to Les Jones:
"The steam trawler 'Electric' had her fishing gear down and towing around the Black Rock, Ireland, .... in 1928, around the 20th of October, when she struck a rock. The crew were rescued by the steam trawler 'Uberty' skippered by Mr. Stanford. The skipper of the 'Electric' was Ginger Knowles. The Black Rock is inside the Barrels."
Skipper Bray began to fish out of Milford in 1921, and was fishing nearby in the CICERO when the ELECTRIC was lost.
From B.T. and R. Larn (2002): Shipwreck Index of Ireland
ELECTRIC 03/11/1928
Co. Wexford, Carnsore Point, Barrells Rocks 52.08.50N 06.23W
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