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Official Number
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| The Galgate was a steel four-masted barque
built by the
Whitehaven
Shipbuilding Company in August 1888. Reputedly she was a sister ship
for the Lord Shaftesbury, launched
the same year. Her initial owners were J.Joyce & Co. of Liverpool,
the master being Capt.T.O.Watson. She seems to have been much engaged in
trade to and from the West Coast of North America, and in both 1899 and
1900 sailed from Shanghai to the Columbia river in only 27 days. In 1902
she took 112 days to sail from Astoria to Queenstown (now Cobh).
In Lloyds 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. Source 5 lists Capt. William Griffiths as the master
of the Galgate from 1898 to 1908 and from 1909 to 1915.
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From the Times newspaper, Tuesday 9th May1916, 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.).From the New York Times, 14th May, 1916, page 4.
SET BRITISH CREW ADRIFTFrom the Times newspaper, Thursday 29th June 1916, page 5Thirteen 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 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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