AVOLA  M249

Official No:  132884     Port Number and Year: 10th in Cardiff 1913 (CF42)

                                                                                -     in Hull, 1919 (H ? )

                                                                               12th in Milford 1937

                                                                                 -     in Hull, 1947 (H382)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw; coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen

Crew: 10

Registered at Milford: 4 Mar 1938

Built: Smith Dock Co., Middlesborough, in 1913.  (Yard no. 547)

Tonnage: 255.01 grt  99.36 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.0 / 23.5 / 13.5

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 85 hp.10.5 kts.  Engine and boiler by builders

Owners:

 

As SASEBO CF42

1913: Neale & West, Cardiff

 

Renamed AVOLA H ?

1919: Lord Line, Hull. 

 

As M249

4 Mar 1938: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, 'Beachways', Fort Rd., Hakin (64/64)

 

4 Dec 1938: Hancock's Ship Building, Pembroke.  (64/64)

 

21 Apr 1939: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, 'Beachways', Fort Rd., Hakin

Frederick Lovell Hancock

Alan Lovell Hancock

Wilfrid Lovell Hancock, 20 Great North Road, Milford.

 

1 May 1942: J. Bennett (Wholsale), Neptune House, London

Manager: William Alfredd Bennett, 'Mountwood', Sanderstead, Surrey.

 

2 Jan 1947: Lord Line, Hull.  H382

 

Landed at Milford:  9 Oct 1937 - 25 Aug 1939

Skippers: Richard Webb Hannaford

Ernest Frank James

Notes: Jun 1915: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper. Admy. no. 117, as SASEBO.

27 Aug 1939: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper. P. No. FY.828, as AVOLA

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 20 Jan 1947.  Transferred to Hull registry

 

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