Boscastle Gallery

LAUNCH AT WEST HARTLEPOOL

Northern Daily Mail, July 2/12

Yesterday, Messrs. William Gray and Company, Limited. launched the handsome steel screw steamer, Boscastle which they have built for Messrs. E. Jenkins and Co., Cardiff. She will take the highest class in Lloyd’s Register, and is of the following dimensions, viz.: Length over all, 309ft.; breadth, 44ft. 9in.; and depth, 32ft. 1 in., with long bridge, poop, and top-gallant forecastle.

The saloon, staterooms, captain’s, officers, and engineers’ rooms, etc., will be fitted up in
houses on the bridge deck, and the crew’s berths in the forecastle.

The hull is built with deep frames, cellular double bottom, and large aft peak ballast tank, five steam winches, steam steering gear amidships, hand screw gear aft, patent direct steam windlass, large patent vertical donkey boiler, stockless anchors, telescopic masts, with fore and aft rig, and all requirements for a first class cargo steamer.

Triple-expansion engines are being supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 22in., 36 in., and 60in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 39in., and two large steel boilers for a working pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.

The ship and machinery have been built under the superintendence of Messers. N. T. And F.
G. Daniels, on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Boscastle was
gracefully performed by Mrs. Jenkins, Cardiff, wife of the owner.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE s.s. BOSCASTLE

 (Northern) Daily Mail, Aug 12/12

Yesterday, the handsome steel screw steamer,  Boscastle,  built by Messrs. Wm Gray and Co, Ltd., West Hartlepool for Messrs. E. Jenkins and Co., Cardiff, was taken to sea for her trial trip.

The vessel has been built to the highest class in Lloyd’s Register, and is of the following dimensions, viz.: Length over all, 309ft.; breadth, 44ft. 9in.; and depth, 32ft. 1 in.

She has long bridge, poop, and top-gallant forecastle. The hull is built with deep frames, cellular double bottom, and large aft peak ballast tank, and all requirements for a first class cargo steamer have been fitted.

Triple-expansion engines have been supplied from the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, having cylinders 22in., 36 in., and 60in. diameter, with a piston stroke of 39in., and supplied with steam by two large steel boilers adapted to work at a pressure of 180lbs. per square inch. Amongst the engine room auxiliaries are included an evaporator and duplex feed and ballast pumps of the C.M.E.W. type.

The trial was a very satisfactory one, a speed of 10 knots being maintained under full load conditions. The owners were represented by Mr. F. G. Daniels (of Messers. N. T. and F. G. Daniels, Cardiff) who has superintended the building of the ship and machinery, and Mr. J. W. Stuart was present on behalf of Lloyd’s registry.

In this section you will find information, photographs and stories relating to more than 260 Hartlepool seamen who lost their lives during during the First World War, and of the ships they served on.
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This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.