Name: | SIR JOSEPH PEASE |
Launched: | 04/04/1889 |
Completed: | 07/1889 |
Builder: | Hepple & Co, North Shields |
Yard Number: | 424 |
Dimensions: | 120grt, 48nrt, 101.5 x 20.2 x 8.6ft; (by 1918: 138grt, 92nrt, 101.6 x 20.2 x 8.4ft) |
Engines: | 2 x C2cyl (13 & 25 x 22ins), 53nhp; |
(1918: Oil engine, 2SA, 2cyl (13.25 x 13.75ins), 26nhp) | |
Engines by: | Hepple & Co, North Shields; (1918: Plenty & Son Ltd, Newbury) |
Propulsion: | Paddle; (1918: 1 x Screw) |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 95922 |
History: | |
05/09/1889 | Tees Conservancy Commissioners, Stockton; registered at Stockton |
1894 | Renamed SAND PUMP DREDGER NO 1 |
1918 | Marine Navigation Co of Canada Ltd, Montreal; renamed GARTHLOCH |
1918 | Manager became Henry J Garthwaite, London |
c 1922 | Daniel Lambert, Seacombe |
1923 | John J D Rassan, Musslewick, Milford Haven |
1924 | Thomas D Adams, St Dogmael's, Pembrokeshire |
22/03/1928 | Abandoned |
Comments: | 24/06/1889: Builder's trials |
1894: Converted to a dredger | |
1894: Still listed in MNL under old name, maybe not registered | |
1913: UK Registry closed as "converted to a hulk" (engines removed) | |
1918: Rebuilt as an auxiliary motor coaster with sails on foremast | |
1918: Converted to oil engine & screw propulsion | |
14/03/1928: Abandoned leaking 17nm NNW of Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire | |
On a voyage from Cardiff for Fishguard and Cardigan with flour and meal | |
21/03/1928: Floating derelict taken in tow by Belfast steamer COMBER | |
22/03/1928: Tow abandoned in bad weather, drifting towards Blackwater Bank | |
Wreckage later washed ashore at Cahore, between Wexford and Arklow | |
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details |
Above photo as GARTHLOCH is copyright of Ceredigion Archives