Photo and details of Black Dwarf (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, May 26, 2011, 02:28 (5006 days ago) @ Jefff

Thanks to Lightmoor Books for a photo of Black Dwarf;

http://www.lightmoor.co.uk/archive50.htm

Below is a transcript of the relevant part of the contents (pages 55-62) for Issue 50 (June 2006) of the quarterly Journal "Archive" from Lightmoor Books; still available it seems, I suspect a few more will sell soon @ only £6 ea ?!?

According to http://www.steamindex.com/archive/arch6.htm

"Black Dwarf was a Clyde puffer which came via John Hallinan of Cork into the hands of William Jones of Lydney who rented a wharf from the Severn & Wye Railway when working a regular service to Bristol under the name of the Lydney Carrying Co.

The detailed contents by Ian Pope are:

Black Dwarf in tidal basin at Lydney page 55
Jones' wharf 1903-05 with three-masted vessel possibly Harvest King p56
Jones' wharf p57u
Jones' wharf store room and office p57l
Pidcock's Canal with Lydney Docks mud barge and possibly Black Dwarf p58u
Black Dwarf loading tin plate at the Free Wharf with narrow gauge railway to Richard Thomas's tinplate works p58l
Black Dwarf heads up canal at Lydney in 1930s p59u
Steamship, possibly Queenstown, unloading sand in Pidcock's Canal; Cheshire Lines wagon loaded with clay pipes, many Cannop Colliery wagons p59l
Black Dwarf in Outer Basin with steam up c1930 p60
Black Dwarf steaming down Lydney Canal in 1930s 61u
Black Dwarf stated to be at Lympsham Bridge, but more probably at Uphill Wharf in 1936 p61l
Black Dwarf probably at Bristol: see letter from Roy Fenton Issue 55 page 24: Redcliffe Backs coal wharf, Bristol p62 "

Also in this Journal is
"Fenton, Roy. William Jones' ships: a postscript to Lydney Docks. Pages 63-4.
Based on ilustration of The Forester approaching St Helier (Jersey) in June 1927. Between 1911 and 1923 The Forester was owned by the Forester Steamship Co. It had been built by Edward Finch & Co. of Chepstow for William Jones and was powered by a two-cylinder compound supplied by W. Sisson & Co. of Gloucester. It had a net tonnage of 79 tons. In 1923 it was sold to Baker & Kernick Ltd of Cardiff, and sold in February 1927 to the Plymouth Channel Island and Brittany Steamship Co. In May 1929 it was sold to Arthur B. Wade of Cardiff and was lost in Weymouth Harbour on 12 January 1930. Also notes on the Lyd built by Hawthorns of Leith in 1881 and named Annie Hope. She changed hands several times, but in 1885 was bought by John E. Crisp of Beccles and renamed Jeannie Hope. William Jones acquired her in 1914, but was sold in 1917. It ended by sinking in Perth Harbour whilst loading gravel in August 1946. Also illusration of William Jones's Queenstown shortly after being acquired from the Great Southern Railways. It is shown on the gridiron at Lydney and was still registered at Cork. It had been by McIlwaine & MacColl of Belfast for the Cork Blackrock & Passage Railway. "