YUCCA  M159

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  128763    Port Number and Year:  7th in Milford, 1912

Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw; coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen.

Crew:  9 men (1912)

Registered at Milford: 29 Aug 1912

Built: 1912, by Cochrane & Sons, Selby.  (Yard no. 532)

Tonnage: 197.95 grt  75.69 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 110.0 / 21.0 / 11.95

Engine: T 3-Cyl; 51 rhp; 10.0 kts.  Engine by Charles D. Holmes & Co., Hull.

Owners:

 

29 Aug 1912:  Southern Steam Trawlers Co. Ltd., 127 Quay, Waterford, Ireland.

(Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price, Milford Docks.)

Manager: Cornelius Cecil Morley, "Cnocaitiun"*, Milford.  

(*Probably "Cnoc Áine" , Co. Limerick: "Aine's Hill". )

 

Landed at Milford:  8 Oct 1912 - 6 Aug 1914.

Skippers: Walter Dayes cert. 1734, age 47, born Hull; signed on 12 Sep 1912; 8 Jan 1913.

Notes: 

Yucca is an evergreen perennial shrub, with dense stiff, sword-shaped leaves and bell-shaped flowers.

Aug 1914: Requisitioned by Admiralty as minesweeper (Admy. No.307). 

24 May 1918: Mined off Lowestoft; mine laid by UC-17 (Oberleutnant zur See Nikolaus Freiherr von Lyncker.)

[Lofthouse T., Mayes G., Newton D., & Thompson M. (2012): Cochrane Shipbuilders

Vol.1: 1884 - 1914.]

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 30 Jan 1919.

 Accidents and Incidents

From the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 16th October 1912:

 

    On Thursday the fine news was that the new steam trawler "Yucca" made her first appearance at the port.  She was recently built to the order of Messrs. Sellick, Morley and Price, at the yard of the well-known firm of Cochrane and Son, Hull.  The vessel is not of the larger class, but is one of the very up-to-date vessels, and engined by Messrs. David Holmes.  She is in charge of Captain Walter Daye, who has already made a few successful trips in her from the port of Hull, fishing in the North Sea, previous to coming to her home port of Milford.  Captain Daye in past years has made a speciality of herring fishing and his absence this herring season doubtless has made a difference to the supply at this market. 

    Whilst it is a pleasure to welcome a fine new vessel, the port has also lost one, for negotiations were concluded last week for the sale of the steam trawler "Centaur", owned by Mr. Morgan W. Howell.  She has been a successful vessel, and has been bought by continental owners.

 

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Log book entries:

 

06.02.1913

On Tuesday the 6th February 1913, in heaving up our anchor off Chapel Bay, we brought up a heavy wire rope and saw a corpse foul of  wire about four fathoms ahead.  As it was blowing hard all all we could do was to clear our anchor and slip the wire.  The corpse was greatly decomposed.

    Walter Dayes. (Skipper).

    A. Lamswood. (Mate  4931.)

 

17.05.1913.

Swansea.

Riby, Coxswain came on board the worse for drink. When brought to his post he caused a dispute between myself and him, and when we got out he refused to continue the trip with all measure of filthy language.

    Walter Dayes. (Skipper)

    A. Lamswood. (Mate 4931)

 

 

   

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