Shipping vessel CRINDAW (pre 1888) registered in Newport

[Special Needs Girl]

Hi,

I have found a record for the death of Thomas George in 1888 after he fell off the Quay into the water and sank in Tonnay-Charente, France.

Trying to read the name of the shipping vessel, it looks like Crindaw but has been transcribed as Cundaw.

I have tried looking for details about the ship which was registered in Newport but been unsuccessful.

Is there anyone who is interested in ships that knows anything about this vessel please.

Many thanks
SNG

[Mabel Bagshawe]

It could be Crindau - that's an area of Newport along the river Usk, with a wharf

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Is it related to this incident involving the SS Crindau?

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4409371/4409373/7/crindau

[Drosybont]

In Lloyd's Register there is a steamer called Crindau, 740 tons, registered in Newport, built at Sunderland in 1883.  Also in shipping reports in newspapers.  It went aground on Antioch rocks near Charente on 20 January 1888 with a cargo of coals and fuel, master and crew rescued, but the ship became a wreck.  Board of Trade Inquiry February 1888 reprimanded the master.

Drosybont

[Special Needs Girl]

Many thanks for all your comments and article. I had tried to add a photo of the incident but I think it was too big an attachment. (I don’t know how to make a photo smaller when using an iPad, sorry).

Consequently I had to rewrite my posting and forgot to put the date of Thomas George’s death - 31st January 1888.

As the article Mabel cited was for a later date, it did not include the drowning of Thomas.

However your article for the 20th January 1888, Drosyboat, is just a few days before Thomas’s death.

Very interesting to read what the cargo was and know now who the owners were as this was not included on the record on ancestry.

Thanks everyone once again.
SNG

[Mabel Bagshawe]

My cutting was for the enquiry DrosyBont mentioned into the loss of the Crindau. As no crew were lost in that incident,  it might be that Thomas was one of those rescued and taken to Charente and then fell into the quay a few days later

[Special Needs Girl]

Sorry Mabel.

Please put it down to reading too many posts in one go and it being late at night.

I am most grateful for everyone’s input.

Although Thomas George is not related to my husband, I just wanted to find out what happened to him. Thomas had married in 1884, had a child in 1885 who sadly passed away in 1886 and so left a young widow, Ellen, after his death in 1888.
Ellen later married my husband’s 2x great grandfather who was a widower but there were no children.

Thank you everyone for your help in solving another brick wall in my husband’s tree.

Best wishes
Pam