HESTO M30

Official No:  99163  Port Number and Year:  23rd in Grimsby, 1891 (GY332)

                                                                               8th in Milford, 1899

Description: Iron side / beam trawler; single screw; coal burner. Ketch rigged: two masts, mainsail and mizzen.

Crew: 12 men (1891); 9 men (1899).

Registered at Milford: 29 Aug 1899

Built: Earle's, Hull, in 1891.  (Yard no. 348)

Tonnage: 134.96 grt  53.72 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 96.4 / 20.2 / 10.43

Engine: T 3-Cyl.   Engine by builders

Owners:

 

As GY332

Jun 1891: White Star Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby

Manager: Henry Smethurst, (jun.)

 

As M30

29 Aug 1899: Charles T. Blethyn, 117 Charles St., Milford (Ironmonger & Managing owner.)

                       David Dundas Roach (Auctioneer), Charles St., Milford.

 

Sep 1902: Unknown Dutch owners.

 

Landed at Milford:  27 Aug 1899 - 29 Aug 1902

Skippers:

W.H. Smith cert 756, age 40, born Granton; signed on 11 Jul 1898

G. A. Ridley 3185, 31, London; 30 Jul 1898

E. S. Throws 4639, 25, Grimsby; 4 Oct 1898

J. H. Lidgard 2365, 32, Cleethorpes; 29 Dec 1898; 7 Jan 1899

J. Tezir 164, 45, Hull; 21 Feb 1899

James S. Gray 996, 45, Woodbridge, residing Great Eastern Hotel, Hakin; 14 Aug 1899; 30 Jun, 7 Jul 1900

T. Rowland 4144, 33, Plymouth; 12 Dec 1899

William R. Summers 6697, 46, Brixham; 17 Oct 1900; 22 Jan, 16 Jul 1901; 8 Jan 1902

C. Garnish 3728, 34, London; 1 Apr 1901

Notes: Hesto is a place in the Faroe Islands.

20 May - 30 Jun 1902: Laid up.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 5 Sep 1902. Vessel sold to Dutch owners.

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entries:

 

23.10.1898

220 miles NE from Spurn.

Martin Tighe age 36, Second Engineer; born Hull, residing 119 Nelson Avenue, Grimsby.

Arms and hands, legs and left side of body burnt.  Patch on main boiler burst causing part of the fire to be thrown on the Second.

    J. H. Lidgard (Skipper)

 

27.05.1901

While making for Milford about 8 a.m. during a dense fog the vessel ran onto the N side of Skomer Island and steamed off again immediately.

    W. R. Summers (Skipper)

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From the South Wales Daily Post of Tuesday 18th December 1900:

LOCAL SIFTINGS.

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The steam trawler Hesto has arrived at the North Dock, Swansea, where it will be repaired, having been towed from Lundy Roads on Sunday. 

 

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