Grassholm SSS 9
Built | 1891 J. T. Eltringham & Co Ltd, South Shields (Iron) |
Yard No | 166 |
Owner at New | Joshua J. Neale & Henry West, Cardiff (Joshua J. Neale owner/manager) |
ID no | 98284 |
Launch Date | 1891 |
Completed | 08.1891 |
Gross Tons | 142 |
Nett Tons | 40 |
Engine | 50 hp T.3-cyl by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields |
Length | 100ft |
Breadth | 20.6ft |
Depth | 11.4ft |
Owners | |
12.08.1891 | Registered at South Shields SSS 9 |
21.08.1906 | Making water after striking a ledge off Minalto, Scilly Isles St. Mary's lifeboat escorted her to St. Mary's. |
15.01.1910 | Owned by R. Thompson & Co Ltd, (Engineers) Leith Edinburgh (R. Thompson owner/ manager). |
07.09.1911 | Skipper John Sullivan, sank following a collision west of Inchkeith Firth of Forth with S.S. "Sir Walter Scott" which was headed for Hamburg . Two men lost Robert Craig (63) engineer Leith and Frank Wilkinson cook. |
18.09.1911 | South Shields registry closed. |
17.07.1912 | At the Edinburgh Court of Sessions; the Sir Walter Scott Steamship Co Ltd, ordered to pay R. Thompson & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh and the crew of the S. T. "Grassholm" , £2269 in compensation. |