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Hearts of Oak

 

 

Shipping Registers

Penwith Shipping Registers Index

Isles of Scilly Vessels [1911-1949]

and Transaction Notes [1837-1887]

Notes made by Alf Jenkins from the Registers

 

NAME /Reg Date

masts TYPE

BUILD

DATE

LENGTH

BEAM

DEPTH

TONS

OWNERS  & NOTES / FATE

Topaz (1911)

Schooner

Hellesborough River

Prince Edward Island

1860

84

19.6

9.8

90.87

Francis Mumford

Broken up 1928

R G D  (1914)

Ketch

J B Mansfield

Teignmouth

1866

74.3

18.8

9.1

78.02

Wm Thomas, St Mary’s;

1916 Clem & Wm John Thomas;

1917 H Radford;

1919 Wrecked/Scuttled

Emily (1919)

Ketch

J F Picot

Jersey CI

1869

56.8

16.3

7.9

39.67

Dorrian Smith, Tresco

Broken up 1928

Peninnis (1920)

Steamship

Single Screw

Bow

Paisley

1904

130

23.2

11.5

200

IoSSCo (Wm Henry Ward)

Sold 1927 Alderney SSCo CI

Emu (1920)

2m Ketch

Truro

1870

71.6

19.6

8.6

65.46

CF Thomas;

1923 Charles Finlay (MM, Devon)

Broken up 1925

Maggie Kelso (1922)

Schooner

Bogel (?)

Ardrossan

1876

73.9

18.9

7.9

70.05

Dorrian Smith, Tresco

Broken up 1926

Gugh (1923)

Steamer

Single screw

Phillips

Dartmouth

1910

47

10.8

5.5

9.62

IoSSCo

Wrecked 1951

Ganilly (1923)

Motor

Twin screw

H W Dockyard

Portland

-

48.5

10.4

5.2

8.91

IoSSCo

Dismantled (used as store Hulk) 1937

Scillonian (1926)

Steamship

Single screw

Ailsa Shipyard

Troon

1926

170.7

28.7

-

325.31

IoSSCo

Silura (1929)

Motor

twin screw

A H Watts

Fowey

1928

30

9.25

-

3.24

Wm George, Birkenshaw

Acquired by Ministry of War 1943

Lady of the Isles

(1947)

Motor

twin screw

Newman

Poole

1947

68.3

16.4

8

31.27

IoSSCo

Kittern (1949)

Motor

single screw

Fox & Son

Ipswich

1944

54.2

13

-

24 grt

12.6 nrt

IoSSCo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IoSSCo = Isles of Scilly

Steamship Company

 

Transaction Notes

 

Ship

Reg Date

Transaction

-

-

-

-

Remarks

Date

Premier

1837

Richard Newman

-

-

-

-

-

-

Rovena

1840

John Tregarthen

-

-

-

-

-

-

President

1842

Richard Newman

-

-

-

-

-

-

Monarch

1844

Ann Banfield

-

-

-

-

-

-

Surpass

1854

Edwin Sherris (MM) / Sherris family

-

-

-

-

To Falmouth

1856

Queen

1850

Sold to Tobias Legg 1855

-

-

-

-

Wrecked Aberthaw

1859

Flying Fish

1851

Davis & Rowe

-

-

-

-

To London

1861

British Queen

1844

Union Shipping Co of Scilly

-

-

-

-

-

-

Matchless

1854

Richard Sherris

-

-

-

-

To Rochester

1864

Suffolk

1854

James Phillips MM & others

-

-

-

-

Stranded near Sydney NSW

1859

Jessie Banfield

1852

Ann Banfield & others

-

-

-

-

To Caenarvon (Hugh King)

1865

Prince Albert

1853

Elizabeth Edwards, Banfield & others

-

-

-

-

To Liverpool (Elizabeth Risby)

1856

Nundeeps

1849

Walter Bickford MM & others

-

-

-

-

Lengthened

1866

Ramneys

1851

Edward Johns MM & others

-

-

-

-

Closed

1874

Eliza

1853

Charles Tregarthen

-

-

-

-

Run down off Newark Island (?)

1857

Rosevean

1847

Clem Banfield MM & others

-

-

-

-

Sold William Bowden MM

Bridgewater

1863

Industry

1854

Local

-

-

-

-

Broken up at Scilly

1859

Triumphant

1855

Harriet, Eliz & Flo Sherris

-

-

-

-

Transferred Falmouth

 

Minalto

1853

Ann Banfield & Richard Dawson MM

-

-

-

-

Stranded – River Plate

1859

Silura

1851

Ann Banfield &

Hugh Tregarthen MM Tresco

-

-

-

-

Abandoned off St Catherines;

sold

1860

Jane Lakey

1855

Ann Banfield & others,

Edmond Lakey MM Tresco

-

-

-

-

Guernsey

1865

Active

1849

-

-

-

-

-

to Bristol (Thomas Carey)

1857

New Bospherous

1846

John Odger MM Tresco & others

-

-

-

-

Lost, Bristol Channel

1888

Mars

1845

-

-

-

-

-

Run down & lost, Bristol Channel

1860

Mandarina

1849

John Tregarthen MM & others

-

-

-

-

Sold Melbourne

1881

Daring

1852

Henry Weymouth & others

-

-

-

-

Sold Melbourne

1880

Lionesse

1851

various

-

-

-

-

to Plymouth

1861

Lady Mena

1852

Local

-

-

-

-

to London Reg

1860

Choile

1853

??, Davies & others

-

-

-

-

to Melbourne  Reg

1861

Minerva

1844

James M??? & others

-

-

-

-

Run down near Runnelstones

1863

Su(r)prise

1854

various

-

-

-

-

Stranded near Malazzo

1862

Bospherous

1840

Tregarthen & others

-

-

-

-

Transferred to Maldon

1885

Cassiterides

1850

Banfield, Lakey (Tresco)

-

-

-

-

Abandoned Manilla & sold

1867

Pet

1843

Thomas Rosser

-

-

-

-

Cardiff

1861

Mary Banfield

1854

Banfield, George Sherris MM & others

-

-

-

-

To port of Bandturrock (?)

1873

Express

1850

James Phillips & others

-

-

-

-

Cancelled

1872

Allegro

1851

John Gibson MM, John Phillips & others

-

-

-

-

Cancelled

1871

Garland

1847

Sold to Steve Gibson MM

-

-

-

-

Lengthened Enlarged

1869

Timandra

1848

Local

-

-

-

-

To Barrow

1868

Gratitude

1844

-

-

-

-

-

Sold Soton (?)

1872

Ann Banfield

1853

Ann Banfield, widow, & others

-

-

-

-

Wrecked : from NY to UK

1871

John Banfield

1859

Local various

-

-

-

-

Sold to Hull

1881

Edmund

1881

Wm Charles Mumford

-

-

-

-

Wrecked Porthcawl

1897

Gleaner

1878

14 various

-

-

-

-

To London

1882

Bertha

1887

from Plymouth

Henry Weymouth & others

-

-

-

-

Converted to a coal hulk

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MM =- Master Mariner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcribed from Notes made by Alf Jenkins (author of The Scillonian and His Boat)

Some writing is not at all easy to read and so there may be errors on my part.

 

 

Raymond Forward

 

With thanks to Fred Ticehurst