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Hearts of Oak
Temperley
Steam
Shipping Co
Ltd
TROWBRIDGE,
NEWBRIDGE and REDBRIDGE
TROWBRIDGE
3,712 grt; 342.3 ft x 46.6 ft
Turret
hull
Built
1904 W. Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland (Yard Nr 320)
J
Temperley & Co
11th April 1907 Ashore on the Komariya Ridge Ceylon, reported holds full of
water. She was on her way from Calcutta to bombay with coal. She was insured
for £36,000.
14th
November 1917 torpedoed and sunk by U-63 while 12 miles SE from Cabo de Gata,
Spain on voyage Blyth to Alexandria with coal.
Board
of Trade v Temperley Steam Shipping Company Ltd
(The
"TROWBRIDGE) [1917] The vessel suffered
damage in an accident in 1917 while under time charter to The Crown. At that
time, repair materials were classified as munitions of war and the local Board
of Trade surveyor, acting under the Munitions Act, restricted the work. Soon
after her departure, the ship broke down again and was properly brought back
for complete repairs; and the Charterer paced the vessel off-hire for the time
so lost. The Owner's claim was that the action of the Charterer's servant could
not properly trigger the clause. Upholding the umpire and the judgment of Roche
J at first instance, the Court of Appeal agreed with the Charterer: per
Scrutton LJ "Now that stopping of
him making his ship efficient was the action of an officer of the State
fulfilling his statutory duty of a semi-judicial character and making an error
of judgement in it. I am quite unable to find any case or any principle which
will bring an action of that sort within the principle, which is sometimes
expressed, that a man cannot take advantage of his own wrong."
NEWBRIDGE
3,737 grt; 342.1 ft x 46.6 ft; 9 knots
Built
1906 W. Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland (Yard Nr 358)
For
Temperley
10th November1914 Scuttled under Admiralty Orders, in the Rufidji
Estuary, German East Africa, in order to bottle up the German cruiser
SMS
KONIGSBERG.
REDBRIDGE
3,834 grt; 350 ft x 50.2 ft
Turret
hull
Built
1907 W. Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland (Yard Nr 385)
For
Temperley
1923 Sold Atlas Reederei A.G., Emden (Schulte & Bruns); Renamed AMERIKA
1934 Scrapped, Vegesack by Bremer Vulkan.
REDBRIDGE
assisted in the aftermath of the earthquake, which hit Messina 5:20am 28th
December 1908, and the tsunami (of forty feet) that followed it. This, most
powerful and destructive European earthquake (7.5 Richter scale and centred in
the Messina Strait), shook southern Italy.
Most of southern Italy's cities lost half their population. Cities were
engulfed in the waves, destroying houses, and many people lost their lives.
Messina was totally demolished and lost nearly all of the 150,000 population.
Raymond
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