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.