Spray - a general history

Official No. 67528: Code Letters LFNB.

Owners: 1872 Middleton & Thomas Edward Watson (Cardiff) West Hartlepool; 1876 Thomas Edward Watson (Cardiff) West Hartlepool; 1878 Pyman, Thomas Edward Watson & Co. (Cardiff) West Hartlepool; 1887 John Ellis & McHardy, Aberdeen; 1932 Monroe Brothers Ltd, Liverpool–renamed Dunvegan; 1936 Kyle Shipping Co. Ltd, Aberdeen; 1942 Springfal Shipping Co. Ltd, London.

Masters: 1872-73 H Dew; 1874 A Hastings; 1875 T Tindale; 1880-82 J Donavan; 1883-85 Hussell; 1887-92 G Sharp; 1893-94 Henry Allan; 1899 C Lawrence; 1909 George Alves (b. 1868 Aberdeen).

Voyages: from West Hartlepool for Algeciras Spray passed down the Channel on 15 November 1873 signalling her screw propeller was disabled.

The Times 6 August 1883.

‘A disastrous collision took place off Flamborough Head on Saturday, during hazy weather, between the steamer Spray of West Hartlepool, and the steamer Tees, of Middlesborough. The former vessel struck the Tees broadside on so violently that the latter speedily sank, but not before her crew launched the boats, from which they were rescued by the Spray, which was comparatively uninjured.
On her voyage northwards she put them into boats in Hartlepool Bay, and all were landed safely half an hour afterwards. They were subsequently assisted home by Mr. Armstrong, of the Shipwrecked Mariner’s Society.’

Bound from Swansea for Glasgow Spray put into Milford Haven on 3 October 1885 having sprung a leak in the forehold.

World War 11 Dunvegan was converted into a floating laboratory and permanently moored off HM Anti-Submarine Experimental Establishment at Fairlie on the River Clyde.

Dunvegan was hulked in 1945 & broken up at Preston by T.W. Ward on 10 November 1958.

Crew 1880;       Creswell, FK, 2nd engineer, 44, Great Marlo

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