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Article title: Captain Richard Phelps Gough (1869-1930)

Captain Richard Phelps Gough (27 Feb 1869-12 Oct 1930) was a well known welsh seaman for 50 years, born in Swansea, son of William (H.M Swansea prison engineer) and Mary Ann Gough. He married Harriot Winifred Bright, daughter of late Samuel and Bridget Bright from Victoria terrace, on the 15th October 1908 at Rhyddings English Calvinist Methodist Chapel in Swansea. The Gough family lived in Swansea, on Beechwood Road and later on Bonville Terrace. Horace Nichol Gough (well known marine engineer) and George Gough (Headmaster at Rutland-Street School) were brothers.

Captain Richard Phelps Gough, a popular Sea Captain, Master Mariner and later on a Swansea Pilot(1904-1930), came from of "one of the oldest families in Swansea" and was in the nineteen twenties one of the most prominent seamen of south Wales. He was also a very sociable man, accustomed to talk in public, he hand-wrote some of his speeches ready to be delivered such as "the Bachelors farewell", "the wreck of the Cyprian", "if only we understood...not understood" and "Kindness". He knew how to hold an audience and was said to have "the gift of the gab".

Early years

Captain Richard Phelps Gough as a young seaman (end of 19th century)

His story of how he ran away to sea aged 14, had a W.W Jacobs' flavor and was greatly enjoyed by many. The story says that one evening when 14 (in 1883), he was sent to fetch bread for the home, got in stealthily into the house, donned a bowler hat to look as old as he could (although he also wore an Eton collar!) and stowed away in one of T.P Richards' barquetines; the Wenona. He was discovered too late for the ship to go back, only when the ship was off "Worms Head" (Island in Front of Rhossili). He got away all right and the ship sailed round Cape Horn, and from that point, the association with the copper ore trade lasted several years.

He was later apprentice in the Richardsons' cape horner Ravenscrag, got his mate's and masters' certificates (1890, 1892 and 1896) and served in numerous ships including the Kildonan, Lord Eslington, Taunton, Illimani, Sevena, Candahar, Brunetti, Sumbawa, Matteawan, Savernake, Menemisha, S.Y Eothen Rys,...) His first steamer was the Hill's Bristol City line, Sir Walter O.N 79147 on which he served as a Master (in 1904). His career at sea spanned almost half a century.

Swansea Master Pilot

After an intense career in the Merchant Navy which lasted more than 20 years and led him all around the world and 10 times around Cape Horn, Captain Gough was a sea pilot in Swansea for 27 years, first under the Old Harbor Trust and later under the pilotage authority, and rendered very good service ( Pilotage License granted 14 march 1904 and renewed every year). He served as a Master Pilot on the Pilot Cutter "Beaufort"(first steam pilot cutter to be build in the world for the purpose of laying along side vessels at sea to embark and disembark pilots) from 1904 to 1924 and then he served on the cutter "Roger Beck" (named by the Pilots after Swansea greatest citizen at the time died in 1923 ) until his death in 1930. He co-owned the Roger Beck as it was built by Messrs Palmers Ltd Tyne (Amble Shipbuilding Co) and was the property of the Pilots constituting the Swansea Pilot Boat co Ltd. The new cutter ordered by the Pilots was an improvement of the Beaufort and was build in accordance to many years experience, being oil driven and capable of developing a speed of 10 knots.

He also took part in WWI, navigated in war zones and was awarded with the Mercantile Marine Medal and the British War Medal both issued in 1921 (unfortunately medals lost). Known as a generous man, he also participated during the war years, as a representative of the Swansea Sea Pilots, to generous subscriptions towards the fund for providing Christmas day gifts to the widows and children of Swansea soldiers who fell at the front.

Freemason and Record around Cape Horn

Richard Phelps Gough was a freemason, member of the Carradoc lodge (n°1573), the Talbot Chapter lodge (n°1323) and the Beaufort lodge (n°3834). In June 1925(16th, 17th & 18th), for the United Kingdom Pilot's conference held in Swansea, as Captain Harris, Captain William J Davies and Captain Gough were chiefly responsible for the arrangements for entertaining the delegates, the Herald of Wales mentions "Captains' Gough excellent record of 10 voyages round Cape Horn on great sailing ships known as cape honers"

Death

Captain Gough was 61 years old when he died. His funeral took place at Bethel Chapel, Sketty in Swansea on the 15 Oct 1930. "Many prominent men had attended at the funeral" He left 3 sons (Hubert, Glyn, John) who all went to sea following in their father's footsteps and a daughter (Gwyneth). His wife Harriott Winifred Bright died earlier in 1924. Captain Gough was remembered long after his death as on the 17 October 1990 a press article referred to him in these terms "60 years ago one of Swansea's best loved seamen died after a long illness after a career on sea which spanned more than half a century"