In 1931 she was sold to Alexandria Navigation Co. Doxford & Sons at Pallion as the Boheme for M. The 4,436grt Norbiton was built in 1911 by W.
Brentford was wrecked in 1888, and seven of them were sold on for further trading to Japanese owners. Six of these fifteen steam tramps became marine losses e.g. More collieries were purchased to provide cargoes for these fifteen steam tramps, as well as for the others under Watts, Ward & Company. Fifteen new tramps of between 3,500dwt and 4,500dwt were then completed by William Gray at West Hartlepool for the new company between 18, with almost all named after London suburbs. A fleet of over a dozen tramps had been registered under this company when on 8th December 1884 the Britain Steamship Co. By the early 1880s, the coastal coal trade was controlled from Newcastle and deep sea tramping from London. In 1879, William Milburn and Edmund Hannay Watts parted company, with the Watts ships then being registered under Watts, Ward and Company, which then traded worldwide. She was carrying a cargo of coal from Cardiff to Murmansk. On January 2nd, 1919, on the north-west point of Kildin Island she ran aground and was wrecked. The 3,246grt Chiswick was built in 1904 by D. In an average year, three colliers and tramps were launched for the coastal and overseas trades of Watts, Milburn and Company, which extended to Australia and the Far East. Coal cargoes were found for the fleet by the simple but drastic method of taking over many North East collieries by a company founded in 1872 by Edmund H. The first Surbiton was lost with all hands on 3rd December 1873, and the second Surbiton sailed from New York on 18th February 1879 and disappeared in the North Atlantic. Two steamers with the same name, Surbiton 965/1869 and Surbiton 1,373/1877, were the first in the fleet to be named after a London suburb. William Milburn was a butcher by trade and held shares in the ships on the 64ths principle, his later shipping company became one of the four constituent founder companies in 1914 of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line (Port Line from 1937).Ī London office was opened in 1869 with Watts moving to London to take control of the business. In 1857, a shipping business was begun under the style of Watts, Milburn & Company, Watts being the senior partner and with the first steamers being Shearwater 682/1864 and Gosforth 833/1866, and the export of coal was naturally a major interest. Brilliant 204/1839 and Sultan 223/1850 trading to the Continent, Iberia and the Baltic with coal. The Watts family started trading at Blyth in Northumberland in the eighteenth century, and by the 1850s Edmund Hannay Watts was acting as a shipbroker, shipowner and loading agent for sailing ships e.g.
Three generations of the Watts family owned a very large fleet of grey hulled tramps with salmon pink boot topping and dark grey masts and derricks. On 6th February 1983 she arrived at Gadani Beach to be broken up by Geofman International. In 1979 she was taken over by the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation.
In 1967 she was sold to the National Shipping Corporation of Pakistan and renamed Swat. Between 19 she was chartered to Port Line as Port Wimbledon. The 9,223grt Wimbledon was built in 1958 by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.īy Norman Middlemiss The Britain Steamship Co. Forgotten Fleets 14th August 2018 Watts, Watts & Co.
0 kommentar(er)
