BEN ADEN M119
Official No: 144600 Port Number and Year: 334th in London, 1920 (LO ? )
11th in North Shields, 1923 (SN136)
1st in Milford, 1941
Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burner. Ketch rigged: foresail, main, mizzen.
Crew: 11 / 12 / 9 men
Registered at Milford: 24 Mar 1941
Built: Hall Russell & Co., Aberdeen, 1918, as JOHN BELL. (Yard no. 625)
Tonnage: 203.06 grt 77.8 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.1 / 12.1
Engine: T-3Cyl. 74 hp. 10 kts. Engine: 1918, by W.H. Allenson, Bedford. Boiler: 1917, by builders.
Owners:
Renamed JOHN SMART SN136
1922: John Smart & Co., North Shields
Renamed BEN ADEN
1932: R. Irvin & Sons, N. Shields.
1940: United Trawlers, Docks, Milford
As M119
24 Mar 1941: H.L. Trawlers Co., Docks, Milford. (64/64)
Manager: Henry John Horwood, Harbour Walls, Pier Rd., Milford
Landed at Milford: 14 Feb - 6 Apr 1941.
Skippers:
Notes: 1918: Requisitioned as JOHN BELL; Admy. No. 3635. Listening Hydrophones. 1 x 12 pdr. AA
1920: Registered as a fishing vessel by Admiralty at London.
20 Apr 1941: Vessel foundered on the Smalls.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 28 Apr 1941
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