CLYRO  M245

Official No:  143849    Port Number and Year: 617th in London, 1920 (LO332)

                                                                                 2nd in Milford, 1922

Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail, mizzen.

Crew:  11 men

Registered at Milford: 4 Jan 1922

Built: 1917 by Smith's Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, for the Admiralty as THOMAS TWINEY(Yard no. 707)

Tonnage: 275.13 grt  107.43 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  125.5  / 23.4 / 12.85

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 61 hp.10 kts.  Engine: 1917, by builders; boiler: 1917, by Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle on Tyne.

Owners:

 

Renamed CLYRO M245

4 Jan 1922: David Pettit, 'Westcliffe', Wellington Rd., Hakin (64/64)

Manager / Owner

(Later:) David Pettit ltd., Docks, Milford

Manager: Mrs Elizabeth Ann Heck Pettit

 

7 Nov 1934: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.

Manager: B. A. Parkes

 

Landed at Milford: 19 Jan 1922 - 10 Jun 1934

Skippers:

Notes: 7 Sep 1917: Completed as a minesweeper THOMAS TWINEY (Admy no. 3528). 1 x 12 pdr.

19 Feb 1920: Registered by The Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO332).

2 Jan 1922: London registry closed; 4 Jan, registered at Milford and renamed CLYRO.

13 Aug 1935: Sailed Ayr for fishing grounds. Stranded on Powder House Rock, Culzean Bay. Badly holed and making water, eight crew members abandoned. Girvan lifeboat stood by 00.30 am to 3.45 pm. Skipper and four crew members manned pumps but had to abandon when water level reached boiler room plates. Wreck subsequently thought to have been used as a target for a gunnery range and destroyed.  [Information from Gilbert Mayes.]

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 21 Oct 1935

 

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