CRADOCK LT591

Official No:  139348     Port and Year:  Hull, 1919 (H14)                                                                  Lowestoft.1919 (LT591)                                                                  North Shields, 1934 (SN8)

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; coal fired.  Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: by Hawthorns & Co., Leith, in 1918.  (Yard no. 170)

Tonnage:   203 grt  88 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.2 / 12.1

Engine: T 3-Cyl; 74.3 rhp; by builders

Owners:   1919: Sold by the Admiralty as WILLIAM CHALMERS   Renamed CRADOCK H14 1919: L. C. Cockrell   As LT591 Dec 1919: Vanessa Fishing Co., Wivenhoe Manager: L. C. Cockrell   1923: Arthur S. Bowlby, Harlow Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford.   c.1924: Vanessa Fishing Co., Docks, Milford Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford.   Jul 1928: Robert Taylor & Sons, Dundee   May 1933: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co., Fleetwood Manager: Basil Parkes.   As SN8 Dec 1933: Shields Engineering & Dry Dock Co., North Shields Managers: R. Irvin & Sons.

Landed at Milford: 19 Jan 1921 - 12 Dec 1938

Skippers:

Notes: Jan 1919: Launched for the Admiralty as WILLIAM CHALMERS. 30 Aug 1919: Completed for L. C. Cockrell. 8 Nov 1941: Attacked and bombed by German aircraft, 14 miles NNE of St. Abbs Head, and subsequently foundered. [Information supplied by Gil Mayes.]

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