Mansepool

Names and owners

Year	Name	Owner
1927	Mansepool	R. Ropner & Company

Fate

In convoy OB-289 on a voyage from Cardiff for Halifax in ballast & with a complement of 41 Mansepool was torpedoed by German submarine U-97 (Udo Heilmann) & sank SW of the Faroe Islands on 24 February 1941. Survivors were picked up by British steamer Thomas Holt. Master Harry Raymond Clark. Two hands were lost.

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Mansepool

Donated by Mr. H. Appleyard
Dated 1928

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Mansepool - Launch

THE MANSEPOOL

LAUNCH AT THE CENTRAL SHIPYARD

Northern Daily Mail. 28/12/27

Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., yesterday launched from their Central Shipyard on Saturday the handsome steel screw steamer Mansepool, which is being built to the order of the Pool Shipping Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool.

The vessel will take the highest class in Lloyd’s Register and is of the following dimensions: Length overall 418ft., breadth 53ft. 6in., depth moulded to upper deck, 29ft. 5 ½ in., with long bridge, poop, and forecastle.

The ship is constructed on the cellular double bottom principle with fore and aft peaks for water ballast, the framing being of the deep channel type, and has six watertight bulkheads, together with a steel centre line bulkheads, and wood shifting boards dividing the holds for grain carrying.

Spacious accommodation for the officers is arranged in a steel house amidships. The engineers are berthed in steel houses alongside casing, and the crew in cubicles in the forecastle, with separate mess rooms.

For the quick handling of cargo, ten powerful steam winches are provided to work 12 derricks. A direct-acting steam windlass forward and steam steering gear amidships are also fitted. The topmasts are telescopic, lowering to a height suitable for the Manchester Canal Bridges. The vessel will be completed in all respects as a first-class cargo steamer, including an efficient wireless installation and electric light throughout.

The Engines.

Triple-expansion engines having cylinders 26in., 43in., and 71 inches diameter x 48 inches stroke, and three boilers working at a pressure of 180lbs., will be supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, and a number of auxiliaries of the “C.M.E.W.” type, will be installed including an evaporator, general service pump, ballast pump, combined drain and scum tank, winch condenser with duplex circulating pump, surface feed water heater, and singlex harbour feed pump.

The ship and machinery are being built under the supervision of Mr. J. B. Nicol on behalf of the owners, and the ceremony of naming the steamer Mansepool was gracefully performed by the Hon Eveleigh Leith of Glenkindie, Aberdeenshire. Amongst those present at the launch were Mr. and Mrs William Ropner, Mr. William Guy Ropner, and the Hon. Jock Leith. The builders were represented by Mr. F. C. Pyman (managing director), Mr. M.S. Gibb (director), Mr. T. S. Simpson (general manager), and Mr. W. Wilson (yard manager).

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Mansepool - Trial

THE MANSEPOOL

SEA TRIALS OF LOCALLY BUILT STEAMER.

Northern Daily Mail. 30/1/28

The steamer Mansepool, built by Messrs. William Gray and Co., Ltd., to the order of Messrs. The Pool Shipping Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool, successfully ran her official sea trials on Friday.

The vessel is built to the highest class in Lloyd’s Register and is of the following dimensions: Length overall 418ft., breadth 53ft. 6in., depth moulded to upper deck, 29ft. 5 ½ in., with long bridge, poop, and forecastle.

She is constructed on the cellular double bottom principle with fore and aft peaks for water ballast, the framing being of the deep channel type. There are six watertight bulkheads, together with a steel centre line bulkheads, and wood shifting boards dividing the holds for grain carrying.

                                                                 ACCOMMODATION

Spacious accommodation for the officers is arranged in a steel house amidships. The engineers are berthed in steel houses alongside casing, and the crew in cubicles in the forecastle, with separate mess rooms.

For the quick handling of cargo, ten powerful steam winches are provided to work 12 derricks. A direct-acting steam windlass forward and steam steering gear amidships are also fitted.

The topmasts are telescopic, lowering to a height suitable for the Manchester Canal Bridges.

The vessel will be completed in all respects as a first-class cargo steamer, including an efficient wireless installation and electric light throughout.

                                                                 The Engines.

The propelling machinery, supplied by the Central Marine Engineering Works of the builders, consists of triple-expansion engines having cylinders 26-43-71 inches diameter by 48 inches stroke, and three boilers working at a pressure of 180lbs. per square inch.

A number of auxiliaries of the well known “C.M.E.W.” type, also made by the Central Marine Engineering Works, are fitted including an evaporator, general service pump, ballast pump, combined drain and scumming tank, winch condenser with duplex circulating pump, surface feed water heater, and singlex harbour feed pump.

The owners were represented on the trial by Mr. J. B. Nicol, superintendent Engineer.