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From: "Ted Finch" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] New subscriber
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:03:39 +0100
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Hello Alethea,

Welcome to the list!

I have details of one of your ships to hand, and can identify most of the
others tomorrow.

CLUMBERHALL
Off. No.112410. 3,599 gross tons, length 340ft x beam 48.2ft. Completed
Oct.1899 by Irvines Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., West Hartlepool for the West
Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool. 1924 sold to Compania
Maritima Elanchove, Spain, but registered under the Costa Rican flag and
renamed ERENO. Subsequently transferred to the Panamanian flag. 1934
scrapped.

Hope this helps
Ted


----- Original Message -----
From: alethea watson <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: [Mar] New subscriber


>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to this list and I wondered if anyone would know anything about
a ship called "Clumberhall"?
>
> My great grandfather- John Sinclair Watson was an engineer in the
merchant navy and in his continuous book of discharge he has this listed as
his first ship- "Clumberhall". He borded her on the 8-5-1901 at the port of
Newport, Mon, sailed to India and returned on the 27-10-1901 where he was
discharged at the same port.
>
> He was then on the "Annie S" and left from Dundee on the 19-11-1901,
sailed to the USA and then was discharged on the 30-7-1902 at Barry.
>
> I'm also after the following ships;
>
> Glenroy
> SS Glencoe
> Calliope
> SS Acacia
> Aureola
> Newlands
> SS Cheniston
>
> I have dates of him being on these ships as well and the places he went
to on them.
>
> I've managed to get a picture of the Glencoe and I know who owned this
ship but I'm wondering who owned the other ships- especially the first two I
mentioned.
>
> Were all of these ships owned by the Reid Newfoundland Railway Company?
>
> My great grandfather finished his apprenticeship on the 20-8-1890 after
serving 5 years- so he would have been aged 20 when he finished. He was born
in Belfast and I believe the apprenticeship was served there as well- his
certificate for his apprenticeship was dated 9-8-1893- so why the 3 year gap
between the date of certification and date of finishing the apprenticeship?
>
> I then have his second engineers certificate dated the 21-10-1902... the
exam was taken on the 14-10-1902. His address at the time of this exam was
3, York Street, West Hartlepool.
>
> I can't find my ancestor on the 1901 census... he may have been in
Northern Ireland at this time though.
>
> Anyway, his continuous discharge book runs from his "first" ship
"Clumberhall" to his last ship "SS Cheniston" and encompasses the years 1901
to 1923.
>
> How or where would I look for him between the years 1890 to 1901? If he
was serving on a ship surely he would have had these stamped in his
discharge book??
>
> I hope someone can offer some suggestions or any information at all
would be unbelievably helpful.
>
> Thank you very much indeed,
>
> Alethea
>
>
>
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