Requisitioned Auxiliary – Saltmarshe

 

Saltmarshe

 

Saltmarshe

 

Official Number:                      122959

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Wm Pickersgill & Co, Southwick, Sunderland

Launched:                              9 May 1907 

Into Service:                           7 March 1915

Out of service:                        21 November 1918

Fate:                                     12 December 1931 broken up

 

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

 

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

9 May 1907 launched by Wm Pickersgill & Co, Southwick, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 159 named SALTMARSHE for Wetherall Steamship Co Ltd ( John H Wetherall, Manager) Goole

14 May 1907 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

 

14 5 1907 Lloyds List Saltmarshe

 

June 1907 completed as a collier and sister to RAWCLIFFE (q.v.)

6 June 1907 berthed at Goole from Sunderland

21 August 1907 berthed at Google from Amsterdam

October 1907 purchased by Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co, Goole name unchanged

2 December 1907 at Goole while discharging cargo a labourer named John England suffered serious injury to one of his hands when an iron “billet” fell from a sling

8 May 1908 sailed Goole for Hamburg with a general cargo

8 August 1908 berthed at Goole from Rotterdam

29 September 1908 sailed Grimsby for Goole

25 April 1909 arrived at Zeebrugge

15 May 1909 at Goole in collision with the ss Frankfort while on passage to Ghent – slight damage

27 May 1909 in the River Ouse near Goole grounded

16 June 1909 inward bound from Ghent grounded at Whitton. The ss Ouse went to assist to get her free and was in collision with the Saltmarshe with both ships being damaged. Both ships reached Goole by the same tide

13 January 1910 passed Spurn Head later arriving at Hull

27 May 1910 arrived at Goole from Rotterdam

27 June 1910 arrived at Hull from Hamburg

9 December 1910 at Goole in collision with ss Ezardian which was at anchor causing damage amidships

15 May 1911 berthed at Goole from Ghent in ballast

21 May 1911 sailed Goole for Ghent with a cargo of coal

9 March 1912 sailed Goole for Ghent with a cargo of coal

9 August 1912 sailed Goole for Ghent with a cargo of coal

20 February 1913 at Goole due to a dockers strike the ships owner gave 24 hours notice to officers and crew that the ship would be laid up

10 December 1913 sailed Goole for Antwerp with a cargo of coal

20 April 1914 arrived at Goole from Amsterdam with a general cargo

7 March 1915 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an Ammunition Carrier, name unchanged

21 July 1918 Able Seaman James Drysdale MMR discharged dead – natural causes – he is buried in Bo’ness Cemetery in grave E2524

 

Drysdale J

 Courtesy and © of The War Graves Photographic Project

 

21 November 1918 returned to her owners

21 March 1919 berthed at Goole from Rotterdam

18 May 1919 berthed at Goole from Rotterdam

26 November 1919 berthed at Goole from Dunkirk

21 December 1921 the Hull Daily Mail newspaper reported …

 

21 12 1921 Hull Daily Mail Saltmarshe

 

1 January 1922 owners became London & North West Railway Co, Goole name unchanged

1 January 1923 owners became London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co, Goole name unchanged

7 September 1923 berthed at Google from Ghent in ballast

11 October 1924 sailed Goole for Dunkirk and Antwerp

19 October 1925 arrived at Goole from Antwerp

10 December 1926 berthed at Riverside Quay, Hull from Antwerp

10 April 1927 sailed Goole in ballast

4 October 1928 arried at Goole in ballast

11 October 1928 berthed at Riverside Quay, Hull from Amsterdam

22 October 1928 grounded – the  Hull Daily Mail newspaper reported –

Press Cutting The daily Mail Oct 1928

19 December 1928 sailed Hull for Antwerp

7 January 1929 arrived at Goole from Antwerp

6 May 1929 arrived at Goole from Antwerp

19 May 1929 sailed Goole for Antwerp with a general cargo

17 November 1929 at Goole while on passage from Hamburg, Germany to Goole with a general cargo and under the command of Captain Sherwood was in collision with ss Swynfleet (Captain Hewson) outbound with a cargo of coal for Boulogne, France. Damage to the ss Swynfleet was such as for her to return to port. Damage to Saltmarshe unknown – source Lloyds Casualty Reports of 18 November 1929

 

swynfleet ouse

ss Swynfleet

18 January 1930 sailed Goole for Dunkirk

5 March 1930 berthed at Goole with a general cargo from Amsterdam

2 April 1930 sailed Goole for Antwerp with a general cargo

31 July 1930 berthed at Goole from Antwerp with a general cargo

18 September 1930 berthed at Goole from Dunkirk and Amsterdam

17 October 1930 berthed at Goole from Dunkirk and Antwerp

6 November 1930 alongside at Riverside Quay, Hull

12 December 1931 arrived Bo’ness for demolition by P & W MacLellan Ltd