BRACONLEA A227

Official No: 137620    Port and Year:  Aberdeen, 1920 (A227)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.  Crabber.  Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen, 1920.  (Yard no. 584)

Tonnage: 200 grt  76 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.5 / 22  / 11.7

Engine: T3-Cyl. 81 rhp; by builders.

Owners:   As DONUM MARIS A227 1920:  Don Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen Jul 1921: Renamed BRACONLEA Manager: J. S. Doeg   1941:  Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co., Fleetwood Manager: B. A. Parkes   Jul 1945: R. P. Lewis (Haven Trawlers), Docks, Milford.   1946: John W Johnstone, Aberdeen. Manager: R. P. Lewis

Landed at Milford: 23 Jul 1945 - 5 Mar 1946

Notes: 1920: Launched as DONUM MARIS (YH227) for Yarmouth owners 7 Oct 1952: Sank after grounding on the Baa of Hascosay at the entrance to Mid Yell, Shetland.  No loss of life.

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