Tramp Ships: An Illustrated History by Fenton Roy

Author:Fenton, Roy
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HBTM; TRA006010; TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
ISBN: 9781473832619
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2013-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Apart from Doxford, only a few of the Wearside tramp builders fully embraced the motor vessel in the 1930s, doubtless because those that placed orders preferred steam ships. An isolated example of a motor ship from the yard of William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd was the shelter-decker Hylton*, completed in January1937. She was managed by W A Souter & Co Ltd of Newcastle and, given that she did not carry one of the company’s ‘Sheaf’ names nor its funnel colours, it is likely that her owner, Hebburn Steamship Co Ltd, was an arms-length venture, largely financed by a loan of over £95,000 under the British government’s ‘Scrap and Build’ scheme. To obtain the loan, the company had to scrap older vessels, and – hardly in the spirit of the legislation – it bought three ageing steamers, two from foreign owners, and had these scrapped, one in Blyth, one in Ireland and one in Germany.

Hylton’s machinery was a six-cylinder four-stroke by the Newcastle works of North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd.

The 445-ft, 11-knot Hylton was torpedoed and sunk by U 48 during March 1941 south of Iceland while in convoy HX 115 on the final leg of a voyage with timber and wheat from Vancouver to the Tyne. The entire crew of thirty-six – a typical number for a tramp of her day – was rescued.

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