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Galgate | Official Number
93808 |
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Galgate | Official Number
93808 |
The Galgate was a steel four-masted barque built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company and launched in August 1888. Reputedly she was a sister ship for the Lord Shaftesbury, built the same year. Her initial owners were John Joyce & Co. of Liverpool, the master being Capt.Cummins. The maiden voyage of the Galgate was from Liverpool to San Francisco. She had to put into Holyhead on the 29th October, and arrived at San Francisco on the 24th February 1889, a voyage of 122 days.
Captain William Grifiths took command of the Galgate in 1898. In both 1899 and 1900 he sailed from Shanghai to the Columbia river in only 27 days. In 1902 the Galgate took 112 days to sail from Astoria to Queenstown (now Cobh, Ireland).
In Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1916 the vessel is listed as being owned by The Galgate Co.Ltd. (J. Joyce & Co., managers), registered at Liverpool, and the master is named as Captain W.Griffiths, appointed to the vessel in 1898.
The Galgate was sunk 170 miles W by N of Ushant by a German submarine on the 7th May 1916, whilst bound from Portland, Oregon, for Falmouth with a cargo of barley.
The Times, Tuesday, 9th May 1916, page 5;
" BREST, May 8.- The British four-master Galgate was sunk on
Saturday night by a German submarine. Twelve of the crew, including two
officers, were picked up by the trawler Alicore and have been landed. There
is no news of the vessel's boat with 14 of the crew on board. The Galgate is a sailing ship of 2,356 tons, owned by the Galgate Company (J.Joyce
and Co.).
The New York Times, 14th May 1916, page 4;
" SET BRITISH CREW ADRIFT
- Thirteen of Galgate's Men Missing - Ship Torpedoed on May 6.
LONDON, May 13.-The British ship Galgate, sunk on May 6, was
sent to the bottom by a torpedo from a German submarine, according to a
British Admiralty statement this evening. The submarine did not provide
for the safety of the crew, the statement declares, and thirteen men who
were in one of the Galgate's boats are still missing. The statement
says:
"The ship Galgate was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine
on May 6 150 miles west of Ushant. Twelve of the crew in one boat were
landed at Brest. Another boat, with thirteen men, is still missing. According
to the mate's deposition, the ship hove to when signaled to abandon ship.
The submarine made no provision for the safety of the crew, which was compelled
to embark in boats and exposed to great risk from high seas.
Dispatches on May 2 from Brest, France, reported the sinking of the
Galgate
by a submarine and the arrival of twelve members of the crew at the French
port. The Galgate, a vessel of 2.631 tons, was last reported as
having arrived at St.Michaels on April 24."
The Times, Thursday, 29th June 1916, page 5;
" The Board of Trade have awarded a piece of plate to Captain
Niels Lauritz Nielsen, master of the Danish steamship Gallia, of Copenhagen,
in recognition of his services to a number of survivors of the sailing ship
Galgate, of Liverpool, whom he rescued in the Atlantic on May 8."
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