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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