Ships built by John Readhead and Sons

At the time of her launch in 1896, 'Trojan Prince' was the largest and fastest ship built at the yard. She had accommodation for 60 first class passengers, a carrying capacity of 5000 tons and reached a speed of 14 knots on trials. Extracts from websites;- TREVOSE Sydney Gordon first left his home in Newlyn in 1911, age13. He walked some 18 miles to St Ives where he signed on as crew with the local firm of Haines Shipping. His first ship was the "Trevose" a steam tramp ship built on the Tyne in 1896 by Readhead.. His first voyage took him eventually to South America where he and another youth jumped ship. They got jobs on board a small trader working up and down the Amazon but eventually they contacted the Salvation Army and asked for help to return home. Sometime later the "Trevose", after completing her trip to the Baltic, was once again in a South America port and the hapless pair had again to join her as crew to work their passage home. I expect that was a hard journey! Shortly after his return to the UKin 1913 he joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor and served on the Devonport Training Ship H.M.S. Impregnable. GERTY The S.S. Gerty was built by Readhead, of South Shields, England, for the Unione Austriaca di Navigazione, familiarly known as the Austro-Americana Line. 4,212 tons; 346 feet long x 45 feet broad; 1 funnel, 2 masts; screw propulison, service speed 12 knots. 23 May 1904, maiden voyage, Trieste-New York. 1919, became "Gerty" (Cosulich Line, the successor to the Austro-Americana Line). 1928 sold to Greece [Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (Prescott, Lancashire: T. Stephenson & Sons., 1955), p. 454]. Pictured in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., [1993]), p. 112, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970. . [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 12 June 1997] ------->>> TO MAIN READHEADS WEBSITE