PEARL - Kettleness 1911
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:49 pm
This photo has appeared in the latest issue of the local REMEMBER WHEN:
I found details of the stranding on wrecksite.eu so I have been able to respond with the following details:
With reference to your query on page 11 of the issue of REMEMBER WHEN dated 20 February 2018, the photo shows the collier PEARL aground at Kettleness, near Whitby. She was on passage from Blyth to Cowes with a cargo of coal and ran ashore because of fog. The incident happened at about 2.00am on 31 March 1911. The Runswick lifeboat attended the casualty and rescued the 13 men on board. During the following week efforts were made to salvage her cargo of coal by removing side plates from her hull. The coaster was herself salvaged and returned to service until 23 September 1916 when the PEARL was captured by a German submarine 41 miles roughly south from The Nab, and then sunk by bombs.
She was a vessel of 613 gross tons, with a length of 55 metres. She had been launched with the name EVELYN in Londonderry but was completed as the PEARL in March 1904. She was owned by Wetherall SS Co Ltd., of Goole (hence the W on her yellow funnel).
Ron
I found details of the stranding on wrecksite.eu so I have been able to respond with the following details:
With reference to your query on page 11 of the issue of REMEMBER WHEN dated 20 February 2018, the photo shows the collier PEARL aground at Kettleness, near Whitby. She was on passage from Blyth to Cowes with a cargo of coal and ran ashore because of fog. The incident happened at about 2.00am on 31 March 1911. The Runswick lifeboat attended the casualty and rescued the 13 men on board. During the following week efforts were made to salvage her cargo of coal by removing side plates from her hull. The coaster was herself salvaged and returned to service until 23 September 1916 when the PEARL was captured by a German submarine 41 miles roughly south from The Nab, and then sunk by bombs.
She was a vessel of 613 gross tons, with a length of 55 metres. She had been launched with the name EVELYN in Londonderry but was completed as the PEARL in March 1904. She was owned by Wetherall SS Co Ltd., of Goole (hence the W on her yellow funnel).
Ron