Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage and legacy

Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - The Lloyd's Register at Penarth Dock . . .

s.s. 'Strathpeffer'

Wreck of a Penarth-laden Steamer - Early yesterday morning, during a fog off the Cumberland coast, the screw-steamer Strathpeffer, of Glasgow, bound from Penarth to Workington, with coals, went ashore at Workington, and subsequently sank in deep water. The crew saved themselves in boats. - South Wales Echo [163] [361] 27th November 1886.

Wreck of a Penarth-laden Vessel - A Lloyd's telegram from Whitehaven states that the trawler James and Francis B., landed on Friday, lifebuoys, buckets, hatches, &c., belonging to the steamer Strathpeffer, of Glasgow, picked up six miles north-west of St. Bee's Head. The Strathpeffer left Penarth on november 24 for Workington. - The Western Mail [164] [361] 27th November 1886.

The coastal, general cargo, steamship 'Strathpeffer' was built at the Merksworth Works of J. Fullerton & Company at Paisley for Alexander M. Hay trading as J. Hay & Sons of Glasgow. She was of 337 gross, 148 net register tons being 160.2 ft. long x 23.2 ft. breath x 10.9 ft. deep having been launched during July 1883. She was wrecked on the 25th November 1886 and during 1887 was reported as 'demolished'. [425]