DORIS - wrecked 1930?

[teesships]

Local news item: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/whats-on/f ... m=facebook

My question is to identify the actual ship concerned. I have looked through all Miramar entries without seeing any potential candidate. Anyone got fuller details?

Ron

[northeast]

See if Hartlepool lifeboat records show up anything?

[CLYDEBRAE]

The Northern Daily Mail records that the 3 master motor schooner "Doris" was wrecked on 26th September 1930. She was on a voyage from Wick to Hartlepool, in ballast, and was scheduled to load a cargo of coal and coke to the agency of Casper Edgar. They refer to her as being of 218 tons, 11 years old, and with a crew of 9, including her Master. The crew were taken off by the Hartlepool lifeboat about noon that day, when the vessel was in dangerous proximity of the Longscar Rocks. She then drifted towards the Tees mouth and reportedly came ashore "a hundred yards or so of the Seaton side of the slag wall". In the 17th October edition it was reported that her back was broken and that she had been sold to the North-East Salvage and Shipbreaking Company with the comment:"An examination of the engines will be carried out shortly, and arrangements made for dismantling the vessel". In late November it was reported that the coxswain of the Hartlepool lifeboat, Robert Hood, had been awarded the RNLI Bronze Medal, and that he and his crew had also received extra monetary awards for their bravery in rescuing the crew of the Doris, when she was attempting to enter harbour in "a strong gale with a very heavy sea running".

[CLYDEBRAE]

Should have added she was reported as Danish

[teesships]

John,

Well done, and thanks for this.

Still looking for details (definitely not under this name in Miramar) but just wonder if she is the 3-master depicted ashore at:
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-schoon ... 74405.html .... no other details shown!?

Ah! Look a bit further and this seems to be confirmed by Hartlepool Museum service at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hartlepoo ... 4398510846

.... and another view: http://www.hhtandn.org/relatedimages/190/doris-wreck

Too many URLS! So will post rest of this response in a separate post.

Ron

[teesships]

.... and the rest of my comments!

.... and part of the wreck still visible (in 1983):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... e-1983.jpg

So, in fact, quite well documented, although no vessel particulars given.

Interesting that wrecksite indicates an earlier Danish schooner named DORIS also wrecked near West Hartlepool in 1916!
http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?204084

Ron

[northeast]

Unfortunately she is not listed in LR.1927/28 so must have been a more recent renaming.

[magoonigal]

DORIS.
Ex DORISO Ex AGNES.
Wood Aux Sc 3 Mst Sr
2 Cy Oil Engine by J & C G Bolinders Co Ltd, 46 NHP.
281 Gross. 259 Under Deck. 218 Net.

Built:- V Krag Christensen, Kolding, Denmark in 1918.
Owner:- A/S Doris. (Rs Jorgensen.) Registered Thuro, Denmark.

122.2 x 27.9 x 12.4 feet.

Marked as wrecked September 1930 in the 1930/31 Register.