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The SS Skinningrove was one of the four main pig iron transporting vessels used by the Skinningrove Iron Company from their jetty at Skinningrove. Terry Shaw has assisted with the following information: “SS Skinningrove a steel screw steamer (General Cargo) IMO 5230454 was built in 1895 by J. L. Thompson and Sons Ltd. at North Sands yard no 332, the vessel was completed on 2nd July 1895. Dimensions: Length 155 feet, Breadth 26 feet, Depth 11.7 feet, 516 tons.
The first owners were Skinningrove Iron Co Ltd – T. C. Hutchinson Middlesbrough.
The Ships other names were:
1919 – Hailsham
1923 – Skinningrove
1936 – Stangrove
1941 – Castilla Del Oro
1944 – Condestable
1954 – Sotileza
1955 – Mechelin
The SS Skinningrove was broken up at Aviles by Desguaces y Salvamentos S. A. on 12/07/1971.
Note: This ship ( off no 98787) built in 1895 was the second of two ships named SS Skinningrove, the original (off no 98773) was built by Wood, Skinner and Company Ltd in 1891 for Charles Henry Pile, London, (Shipping Investments, Cork).
Skinningrove Iron Company Ltd used this ship for the export of pig iron from 1891 to 1895 when the ship was sold to P. Biraben & Fils, Bordeaux and renamed Pierre-Paul.
Image (from a newspaper cutting) courtesy of several sources including Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, thanks to Terry Shaw for the additional information.
A lovely photograph of the mine, but I think it may be a postcard. Someone has cropped the card (not guilty) but part of Geo. Skilbeck’s name can still be seen. Derick Pearson observed: “I think this image has been tampered with or someone has made a grave mistake which I am sure George Skilbeck would have had something to say about. The photograph has the name as Geo. Silbeck, missing the K. Very unusual at that time as they were particular and I doubt they would have printed many before that would have been spotted. If it is an original and correct as we see it, then it is well worth keeping hold of.”
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, thanks to Derick Pearson for the update
Now the fan falls into disrepair as the mine is no longer working.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone mining museum.
Do you remember Redcar bus station like this? I do. Tony Chambers tells us: ”I to remember the bus station; it was on the left at top of High Street coming in from Marske side. I was born in Redcar (1947) and left when I was 10 years old. I can remember the cinema behind or very near the clock tower. There was a children’s clinic next to cinema where we had to go each week for a spoon of thick orange juice (tasty!). The Library right side of clock on corner. Marks and Spencer’s a little further up the High Street on left of clock. King’s Ice cream on the coast road near Zetland park. I can go on and on. I have not been there since around 1961.”
” Peter Dale has memories of the Redcar bus station: “Now a car park! Quite often the buses would run away backwards, towards Lord Street, crossing the road and ending up in the Granby Café (Later to become Redcar Citizen’s Club) or the cottage next door; wooden blocks were chained to the railing stanchions at each bus stand to prevent this happening.”
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday and others, thanks to Tony Chambers for the additional information on Redcar, also to Peter Dale for his update.
A view of Palmers ironstone loading staithes at Port Mulgrave, with a boat either just berthing or about to depart (judging by the smoking chimney stack!) from the jetty. Bill Danby advised: “This is another shot of the jetty at Port Mulgrave. If you look at the photograph entitled “Port Mulgrave” with boats waiting to be loaded, you can see the structure of the jetty is the same and in fact this is virtually the same scene taken from another angle.”
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson and thanks to Bill Danby for the update.
A different photograph of the mine showing the ’buckets’ taking the shale to the tip behind the mine. The ironstone went to the works via the shaft for North Loftus mine (the head gear was inside the works). This image is probably dated c. 1930.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, thanks to Eric Johnson for additional information.
Although it says Bell Brothers Brownlee Colliery on the side of this ambulance, it is housed at the mining museum at Skinningrove. If I remember rightly it was restored by some apprentices at the I.C.I. at Wilton. Another memory recall is that the body of a rescued man was put in in a certain way, one way he was alive and another way he was dead, but which way was it?
Image courtesy Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.
Simon Chapman advises the Archive: “This was the ventilating fan at Lumpsey mine. It was installed in 1925 and made by the Waddle Fan Engineering Co. of Llanelli in South Wales. After working until 1964 it was left to decay until somebody stole it.”
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, thanks to Simon Chapman for the update.
When this photograph arrived to the Archive it was believed to be of the ironstone bunkers at Port Mulgrave. This was confirmed by Simon Chapman who explained: ”This was a fire at Port Mulgrave about 1911. You can see it has burnt out the engine room and boilers for the rope haulage system through the tunnel to Dalehouse, exposing a section through one of the bunkers for loading ironstone into ships in the harbour. The big mound of ironstone to the right was usually built up when sea conditions prevented ships docking and taking normal shipments away. The damage was later repaired and the harbour got back to normal operations.”
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and Maurice Grayson; also many thanks to Simon Chapman for the supporting information.
A view of Port Mulgrave with the boats waiting to be loaded with ironstone; the number of vessels in the harbour gives a fair impression as to how busy it was.
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.
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