Videos Available – Marian’s Last Trip

We have now uploaded videos filmed during the last trip of the Marian prior to being transported (by road) to Goodwick.

The videos are available on our YouTube channel and are also embedded here.

Film Crew at the Chartehouse Berth

On Friday morning a film crew arrived to film Rhian Peters for the welsh programme ‘Wedi Saith’ to be screened on Thursday 16th July at 19:00hrs.

They also visited Mair Hermina Havard [nee Morgan].

Photo by Johnny Morris.

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Photos by Phil Davies

Photo by Johnny Morris

This is an interesting photo by Johnny Morris of Fishguard of the Charterhouse ‘flying’!

The stern rope is rather flimsy.

The Needle Rock is in view.

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Return Photographs Added

Larger size photographs of the Charterhouse’s return have been added to the main website.

Please       click this link to view.

‘The Return’ Page Added

A new page has been added to view the Return of the Charterhouse on 23rd & 24th June 2009

https://charterhousereturns.wordpress.com/the-return/

The Guest of Honour

The ‘guest of honour’ was the granddaughter of Tom Perkins [Bronze Medal for the Hermina rescue] who brought her family’s treasured medal and certificates.

Rhian Peters [nee Perkins] originally from High Street, Fishguard brought the most interesting photographs, certificates and the Bronze Medal from the Hermina rescue of 1920.

Thank you Rhian for attending and for the donation to the Charterhouse Returns  Restoration Fund.

View the photographs here:-

https://charterhousereturns.wordpress.com/the-return/

Charterhouse Arrives!

At 10am precicely Paul Morgan with his family and staff arrived with the Charterhouse.

A party of local councillors, including the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Charterhouse Returns committee members, Lifeboat Crew, Local Sponsors, local interested parties and the Press were present.

The ‘guest of honour’ was the grand-daughter of Tom Perkins [Bronze Medal for the Hermina rescue] who brought her family’s treasured medals and certificates.

During the procedure the Lomas Family made contact speaking to The Mayor and Phil Davies.

Special thanks:-

To Paul for his involvement in the transportation.

To Ian Davies and his STENA staff for the crane and their involvement.

To Mike Iles for the movement of the Charterhouse to its temporary berth.

And all personnel helping the procedure including Phil Rees, Steve Done and Billy Davies.

View the photographs here:-

https://charterhousereturns.wordpress.com/the-return/

Time for arrival.

The Charterhouse returns to

Fishguard Harbour

at 10am tomorrow 24th June.

[Near the Blue Peter RNLI Lifeboat]

Thanks to Ian Davies [STENA] for his support.

Thanks to Paul Morgan and his staff  for their help in transporting the Charterhouse.

Thanks to Scott Metcalfe and his staff for the ‘Lifting’

Hermina Details

Charterhouse was involved in the rescue of the crew of the Hermina:-

Name: HERMINA

Type: Cargo ship [auxiliary 3-masted schooner]

Date of completion: 10.1917

Flag: NLD

Tons: 351

Builder: Bodewes, G.& H

Owner as Completed: N.V.Vrachtvaart Maats Neerlandia, Rotterdam

Wrecked Needles Rock, Fishguard Bay 4.12.1920

Look at Hermina at the bottom of Needle Rock

Family of W. Devereux make contact.

Mary Louise Pearce and Stewart J. Nolan have made contact today regarding their great grandfather, W. Devereux who was a member of the famous 1920 Hermina rescue.

W. Devereux was on the Irish Ferry S.S. St. Patrick, alongside the quay, when the Chaterhouse was called out.

He was a native of Wexford.

The contact with this family [only the second family in contact with me – Tom Perkins’ family was the initial contact] is in its early stages so I hope they will supply us with more details, either through emails or in the ‘Blog’!