SPEEDWELL V  BF328

Official No:    Port and Year:   Banff, 1911

Description: Side drifter / trawler, steel; steam screw, coal burning.  Ketch rigged.

Crew:  10 men

Built: 1911, by J. Duthie, Torry Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 354)

Tonnage: 92 grt  38 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 86 / 18.5 / 8.7

Engine: T-3Cyl.  42 nhp   Engine by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Glasgow.

Owners:   1911: G & G Morrison, Banff   1913: W. Blackhall, Banff.

Landed at Milford: 18 May - 5 Dec 1910?

Skippers:

Notes: Feb 1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty an converted to a net vessel. (Admy no. 2264.) 28 Oct 1916: Foundered with the loss of all hands.  [See below.]

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 3rd November 1916:

 

    CREW OF TEN LOST

MILFORD HAVEN VESSEL BROKEN UP OFF ROSSLARE

 

    A gale of unprecedented ferocity swept over Wexford  during the week-end.  In the early hours of Saturday morning the steam drifter Speedwell of Milford Haven, when making for Rosslare Pier for shelter, was driven ashore on Splaugh Rock, off Greenore Point.  The vessel broke up quickly in the heavy sea, and the entire crew of ten were lost.

 

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