{"id":14366,"date":"2024-06-07T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T09:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T09:29:04","slug":"the-life-and-times-of-the-schooner-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14366","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Times Of The Schooner \u201cResult\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE SCHOONER \u201cRESULT\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the April edition of What\u2019s On, I\u00a0 presented an article about the old\u00a0 Bristol Channel Pilot sailing cutters. In\u00a0 that article I mentioned in passing a\u00a0 ship named the Result which I said was\u00a0 worthy of its own article. Here is that\u00a0 article as summarised from Wikipedia\u00a0 by Tony Hodge.<\/p>\n

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The Result is a three-masted cargo\u00a0 schooner built in Carrickfergus,\u00a0 Northern Ireland in 1893. She was a\u00a0 working ship until 1967, and served for a short time in\u00a0 the Royal Navy as a Q-ship during World War I. She\u00a0 currently rests on land at the Ulster Folk and\u00a0 Transport Museum and in 1996 was added to the\u00a0 National Register of Historic Vessels.<\/p>\n

Construction of the ship was commenced in 1892 in\u00a0 the Paul Rodgers & Co. yard in Carrickfergus, for the\u00a0 shipping company Thomas Ashburner & Co., based in\u00a0 Barrow. Her overall length is 31m and her beam is\u00a0 6.6m. She was launched a year later and operated by\u00a0 the Ashburner company until 1909, when she was\u00a0 sold for \u00a31,100 to Capt. Henry Clarke of Braunton,\u00a0 North Devon. In March 1914 a 45 bhp single-cylinder\u00a0 Kromhout auxiliary engine was fitted.<\/p>\n

In January 1917 Result <\/em>was requisitioned by the Royal\u00a0 Navy to act as a Q-ship (namely one to entrap Uboats)\u00a0 and armed with two 12-pounder guns forward\u00a0 and aft of the mainmast, a 6-pounder gun forward,\u00a0 and two fixed 14-inch torpedo tubes aft. The crew of\u00a0 23 were commanded by Lieutenant Philip Mack RN.<\/p>\n

On 15 March 1917, Result <\/em>was on her first patrol,\u00a0 sailing off the south end of the Dogger Bank, under\u00a0 the flag of the neutral Netherlands, when she spotted\u00a0 the German submarine UC-45 <\/em>on the surface astern\u00a0 about two miles off. The UC-45 <\/em>approached to 2,000\u00a0 yards before opening fire. The “panic party” of five\u00a0 men rowed away in a small boat, leaving the\u00a0 seemingly abandoned vessel to the Germans.\u00a0 However the submarine, wary of deception, closed to\u00a0 no more 1,000 yards, keeping up a steady and rather\u00a0 inaccurate fire. Result <\/em>sustained some damage to her\u00a0 sails and rigging, and eventually Mack gave the order\u00a0 to attack, and the aft 12-pounder hit the submarine in\u00a0 the conning tower with its first shot. The 6-pounder\u00a0 also hit the submarine, but it then dived, and the 12-\u00a0 pounders second shot missed. Result <\/em>then headed for\u00a0 the English coast, but that night encountered another\u00a0 German U-boat. Result <\/em>fired a torpedo, which missed,\u00a0 and both vessels opened fire, to little effect, before the\u00a0 submarine dived. For his actions Lt. Mack received a\u00a0 mention in despatches. Other such missions followed\u00a0 with a variety of subterfuges and levels of success.<\/p>\n

After the war Result <\/em>was employed transporting\u00a0 Welsh slate, sailing from Portmadoc to Antwerp and\u00a0 other ports, and then along the south coast of England.\u00a0 For most of this time she was jointly owned by Capt.\u00a0 Clarke and Capt. Tom Welch, also of Braunton, but\u00a0 shortly before the outbreak of World War II sole\u00a0 ownership passed to Capt. Welch. During the war she\u00a0 was employed in the Bristol Channel, transporting\u00a0 coal from ports in south Wales<\/p>\n

In 1946 she was refitted with a new\u00a0 120 hp engine. In 1950 she was hired\u00a0 to take part in the filming of Outcast of\u00a0 the Islands<\/em>, directed by Carol Reed,\u00a0 and starring Trevor Howard and Ralph\u00a0 Richardson. She was refitted for her\u00a0 part at Appledore, and filming took\u00a0 place around the Scilly Isles.\u00a0 Result <\/em>returned to her previous trade in\u00a0 January 1951 and, under the ownership\u00a0 of Capt. Peter Welch, was employed up\u00a0 until 1967, by which time she was the last vessel of\u00a0 her type still in operation. She was at Jersey being\u00a0 converted into a charter yacht when Capt. Welch died\u00a0 and was laid up at Exeter before eventually being sold\u00a0 by Mrs. Welch to the Ulster Folk and Transport\u00a0 Museum. Result <\/em>sailed to Belfast in late 1970 for some\u00a0 restoration work at the Harland & Wolff shipyard. In\u00a0 1979 she was transported to the museum’s site at\u00a0 Cultra where she remains on display to this day.<\/p>\n

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE SCHOONER \u201cRESULT\u201d In the April edition of What\u2019s On, I\u00a0 presented an article about the old\u00a0 Bristol Channel Pilot sailing cutters. In\u00a0 that article I mentioned in passing a\u00a0 ship named the Result which I said was\u00a0 worthy of its own article. Here is that\u00a0 article as summarised from Wikipedia\u00a0 by Tony Hodge. 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