	Landshipping Colliery	Index	Landshipping Colliery

Landshipping Colliery

Location:	Landshipping 5½ miles [9 km] NNE of Pembroke
Map Ref:	(Sheet 157 St. Davids and Haverfordwest, 158 Tenby and Pembroke) SN009112, 51° 45' 49" N, 4° 53' 8" W
Opened:	1855
Closed:	1923
Pits:	Garden Pit
Owners:	Sir Hugh Owen
	Colonel Sir John Owen
	Mr. M. A. Stanley
	Landshipping Colliery Co.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Anthracite.
	1896 - Coal: Anthracite.
Employment:	1894 - 31 (20 below, 11 surface)
	1896 - 3 (2 below, 1 surface)
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

14th

Feb

1844

Inrush of tide, 40 lives lost (Show Names)

Those entries marked with , signify a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Butland, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 17, Inundation [More information ...]
						Butland, Thomas, 14 Feb 1844, aged 10, Inundation [More information ...]
						Cole, David, 14 Feb 1844, aged 12, Inundation [More information ...]
						Cole, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 19, Inundation [More information ...]
						Cole, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 28, Inundation [More information ...]
						Cole, Thomas, 14 Feb 1844, aged 14, Inundation [More information ...]
						Davies, Henry, 14 Feb 1844, aged 9, Inundation [More information ...]
						Davies, James, 14 Feb 1844, aged 36, Inundation [More information ...]
						Davies, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 14, Inundation [More information ...]
						Davies, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 18, Inundation [More information ...]
						Davies, William, 14 Feb 1844, aged 10, Inundation [More information ...]
						Day, Thomas, 14 Feb 1844, aged 11, Inundation [More information ...]
						Gay, Joseph, 14 Feb 1844, aged 55, Inundation [More information ...]
						Harts, Benjamin, 14 Feb 1844, aged 41, Inundation [More information ...]
						Harts, Joseph, 14 Feb 1844, aged 4, Inundation [More information ...]
						Hitchings, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 23, Inundation [More information ...]
						Hitchings, William, 14 Feb 1844, aged 13, Inundation [More information ...]
						Hughes, William, 14 Feb 1844, aged 19, Inundation [More information ...]
						Jenkins, James, 14 Feb 1844, aged 16, Inundation [More information ...]
						John, George, 14 Feb 1844, aged 10, Inundation [More information ...]
						John, James, 14 Feb 1844, aged 11, Inundation [More information ...]
						John, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 9, Inundation [More information ...]
						Jones, Benjamin, 14 Feb 1844, aged 28, Inundation [More information ...]
						Llewellin, William, 14 Feb 1844, aged 58, Inundation [More information ...]
						Llewellin, William, 14 Feb 1844, aged 39, Inundation [More information ...]
						Llewhellin, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 15, Inundation [More information ...]
						Llewhellin, Thomas, 14 Feb 1844, aged 51, Inundation [More information ...]
						Llewhellin, William, 14 Feb 1844, aged 15, Inundation [More information ...]
						Llewlyn, David, 03 Apr 1856, Fall in shaft
						Owen, James, 14 Feb 1844, aged 18, Inundation [More information ...]
						Picton, James, 14 Feb 1844, aged 21, Inundation [More information ...]
						Picton, Joseph, 14 Feb 1844, aged 13, Inundation [More information ...]
						Picton, Joseph, 14 Feb 1844, aged 40, Inundation [More information ...]
						Picton, Joseph, 14 Feb 1844, aged 11, Inundation [More information ...]
						Picton, Mark, 14 Feb 1844, aged 17, Inundation [More information ...]
						Picton, William, 14 Feb 1844, aged 15, Inundation [More information ...]
						Picton, William, 25 Sep 1863, Collier, Fall of roof
						Richards, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 20, Inundation [More information ...]
						Scourfield, James, 14 Feb 1844, aged 18, Inundation [More information ...]
						Thomas, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 14, Inundation [More information ...]
						Watkins, John, 14 Feb 1844, aged 17, Inundation [More information ...]
						Watkins, Thomas, 14 Feb 1844, aged 8, Inundation [More information ...]

						42 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

Those names marked with , were killed in a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Landshipping Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Landshipping Colliery

Memorial Images:

Memorial: 1844 Landshipping, Garden Pit Colliery Disaster

Credits

Sources:

1856 Mines Inspectors Report, by Thomas Evans, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1863 Mines Inspectors Report, by Thomas Evans, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website