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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