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Crown patent fuel block
Patent fuel block with worn inscription.
S.S. SKAALA was a schhoner-rigged 1116 gross ton steamer built in 1906 in Bergen. The SKAALA left Port Talbot heading for Rouen with a cargo of approximately 1500 tons of patent fuel blocks. At 2.45pm on Boxing Day 1917, a large explosion occured on her starboard side. She had been hit by a torpedo from one of the bow tubes of the German submarine UB-35. One man, the second engineer, was killed in the explosion and a fire immediately broke out in the engine room. The rest of the crew got into the port boat in time to see their ship roll over and sink. The survivors were picked up by a patrol vessel and landed at Dartmouth.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2006.134
Creation/Production
Crown Patent Fuel Co.
Date: 1917 (circa)
Acquisition
Donation, 22/12/2006
Measurements
Length
(mm): 210
Width
(mm): 260
Height
(mm): 175
Weight
(kg): 12.05
Material
coal dust
Location
In store
Categories
coal coke & patent fuel other industries and man. maritime West Glamorgan 1910s Skaala (S.S.)Classification
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